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• ... it doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Lying, Answers

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• Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Religion, Today

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• The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.

  Rick Atkinson

  Real, Distance, Believe

  "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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• In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

  Warren Buffett

  Men, Alchemist, Investing

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• Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.

  Chauncey Depew

  Wise, Stars, Ocean

  Chauncey Depew “The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892”

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• The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  People, Vices, Doe

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Bravery, Example

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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• The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.

  J. James Exon

  Thinking, Years, Freedom Of Speech

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• Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Optimistic, Rose, Vision

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hard Times, Thinking, Wikipedia

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• We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Mistake, Information, Structure

  "Collected Papers: Toward a general social science" (1974) by Kenneth Boulding (p. 87), as quoted in "Environment, technology, and future generations" by D. A. Bella, 1978.

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• Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Blessed, Ideas

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• Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Lines, Assumption

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Skills, Different

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Views, Traitor

  Remarks By George Bush at the Dedication Ceremony, www.cia.gov. April 26, 1999.

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• It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Mind, Ordinary

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

  Tony Abbott

  Facts, Humans, Subjects

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• Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Holiness, Response

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• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Facts, Events, Details

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.98, Verso

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• It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Divinity, Assuming, Ends

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• In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.

  Li Bai

  Moon, Energy, Males

  David Hinton, Bai Li, Po Li, Li Po (1996). “The Selected Poems”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• ... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

  Lazare Carnot

  Beautiful, Circles, Ideas

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• The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Greatness, Average

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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