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• If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

  Anthony de Mello

  Passion, May, Overwhelming

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.70, Image

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• Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.

  John Piper

  Disappointment, Husband, Love Is

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• It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Risk, Independence

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• One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

  Rollo May

  Able, Existentialism, Persons

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.38, Jason Aronson

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• Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

  Saul Bellow

  Stupidity, Answers, Infallible

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• [Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

  Henri Nouwen

  Land, House, Leaving

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• The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Inability, Forget

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.16, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one's own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness demands some slight sacrifice of your own pleasure. . .you must remember that these two qualities are the signs of Christian heroism.

  G.A. Henty

  Christian, Hero, Sacrifice

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• Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

  Confucius

  Care, Want, Notes

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Risk, Growing

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.119, Multnomah

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• A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Maturity, Dating, Matter

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to return to the Palestinian state, and allowing a number of refugees to settle, with general compensation, where they want to settle? It is not an abstract problem. It involves four million human beings, and more than fifty years of various sorts of misery. But it is not an insolvable problem. It involves some good will, and a readiness to give up historic myths on both sides.

  Uri Avnery

  Giving Up, Numbers, Israel

  Source: progressive.org

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• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Blame

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality of human existence. The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other. He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Eye, Reality

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• The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mind, Causes, Records

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.168, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

  Hyman Rickover

  Organization, Details, States

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.

  Richard A. Kidd

  Soldier, Care, Way

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• There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wings, Ease, Flight

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• There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

  Norm MacDonald

  Practice, Two, Fool

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• Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Mean, Effort, Waiting

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• If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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• At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

  Marcus Aurelius

  Work, Men, Light

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• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Jealous, Soul

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

  Maya Angelou

  Paris, White, People

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