#study

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. ↗

— Ovadia Yosef

#disasters #little #natural #natural disasters #study

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#fat #found #get #likely #more

We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#sacred-texts #scriptures #study #truth #yoga

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence...The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#alarming #alone #between #due #exposure

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #language #making #means #must

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#beliefs #between #broad #broad range #change

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#burning #causes #counseling #course #economics

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ↗

— Xun Zi

#cannot #human #human nature #nature #people

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#follow #knowledge #lame #practical #results