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• The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

  Michael Faraday

  Education, Men, Judging

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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• Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

  Stafford Cripps

  Sympathy, War, May

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• Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.

  David Allen

  Vacation, Years, People

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• Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Eye

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Nature, Acceptance, Men

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• My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation, Greatness, Would Be

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• Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Raw Materials

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• Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Failure, Recovery, Remember You

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• Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

  Donald Hall

  Baseball, Games, Lasts

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• The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Advice, Understanding

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• Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Love, Christian, Loyalty

  Samuel Logan Brengle (1929). “Ancient Prophets: With a Series of Occasional Papers on Modern Problems”

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• I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Finals, Want

  Jasper Johns, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1974). “Jasper Johns: drawings”

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• Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

  Fidel Castro

  Brother, Exercise, Thinking

  "Havana on the offensive as Castro lashes out at 'fat little brother' Bush" by Richard Luscombe, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

  Robert Genn

  Mystery, Description, Obvious

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• Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Waste, Faults, Wasting Time

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• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Stories, Actors, Levels

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• To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge.

  Jerry Fodor

  Hands, Parent, Retrospect

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• The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination.

  Nancy Hartsock

  Class, Feminist, Understanding

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• An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

  William Labov

  Strong, Children, Home

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• The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

  Fred Hoyle

  Numbers, Might, Transformation

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• Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.

  David Deutsch

  May, Cynicism, Quantum

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• When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  People, Shooting, Approach

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1965). “The interpersonal theory of psychiatry”

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• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Week

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

  Joseph Murphy

  Facts, Belief, Opinion

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.18, GENERAL PRESS

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• Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Hands, Imagination

  Charlotte Maria Mason (1906). “Home Education”

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