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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

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Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

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In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction. ↗

— Robert Nelson

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ↗

— Francis Parkman

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The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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True greatness is often unrecognized. ↗

— Russell H. Conwell

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And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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