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#con

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #con




Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us. ↗


— Jerry Bridges


#conformitying #godliness #life #life

Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires. ↗


— Steven Redhead


#create #life #living #taking-back #true-desires

But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. ↗


— Ayn Rand


#convictions #life #philosophy #sex #life

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗


— Anthon St. Maarten


#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady. ↗


— Pamela Horn


#marriages-of-convenience #victoriana #victorians #life

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗


— George Eliot


#dogma #mistake #science #life

Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.... ↗


— Friedrich A. von Hayek


#life

You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country—the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove—one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like that? I can make you one for five hundred dollars.' I laughed at his proposition. A few months afterwards, the same Yankee came to see me again, and this time he said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like to buy another thing like that? I have one already made for you. ↗


— Tom Standage


#automata #conduct #life

The life of a child is precious. ↗


— Dr. Asa Don Brown


#life

It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path. ↗


— Django Wylie


#life #life-lessons #puns #wordplay #life






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