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Alain de Botton quote: "A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still..."
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. Alain de Botton
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years Yehudi Menuhin
I don't know a movement more self-centered and further removed from the facts than Marxism. Everyone is worried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of their infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore the truth. Politics don't appeal to me. I don't like people who don't care about the truth. Boris Pasternak
It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. Thomas Merton
Marvin J. Ashton quote: "One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more..."
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down. Marvin J. Ashton
The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood in practice. Ayn Rand
Lao Tzu quote: "Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao,..."
Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Lao Tzu
If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which world we are talking about, no matter what kind of world we are talking about, the line separating fact from hypothesis is practically invisible to the eye. It can only be seen with the inner eye, the eye of the mind. Haruki Murakami
You love nobody. Is that not true?"Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Herman Hesse
Walter Scott quote: "I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but..."
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice Walter Scott
What could go wrong...Doing some stupid impulsive thing that cause the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition. Orson Scott Card
Over the balustrade I could see the dark trees of Webster Groves and the more distant TV-tower lights that marked the boundaries of my childhood. A night wind coming across the football practice field carried the smell of thawed winter earth, the great sorrowful world-smell of being alive beneath a sky. Jonathan Franzen
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm
Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. Michael Pollan
Choices If i can't do what i want to do then my job is to not do what i don't want to do It's not the same thing but it's the best i can do If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want Since i can't go where i need to go . . . then i must . . . go where the signs point through always understanding parallel movement isn't lateral When i can't express what i really feel i practice feeling what i can... Nikki Giovanni

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