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• Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

  Daniel Webster

  Life, Knowledge, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.25, Beard Books

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• The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1749). “I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus”, p.4

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• The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

  Jessamyn West

  Joy, Sorrow

  Jessamyn West (2016). “Cress Delahanty”, p.100, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

  Henry Miller

  Kings, Men, Profound

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Be still and turn within to the great source.

  Charles Fillmore

  Meditation, Turns, Stills

  Charles Fillmore (2013). “Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

  John McPhee

  Research, Plagiarism

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• Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

  James Carroll

  Life Changing, Book, Reading

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  Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

  Bill Johnson

  Identity, Intimacy, Royalty

  Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Holy Days, Years

  "How To De-Stress This Holiday Season" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

  Martha Beck

  Empowerment, Process

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• There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Ecosystems, Robins

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• The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

  Alex Grey

  Eye, Reflection, Self

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• If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

  Billy Sunday

  Prayer, Stranger, Humans

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Riches, Ruins, Wealth

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• I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Special, World

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• Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.

  Rumi

  Cutting, Sound, Cry

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• The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Secret, Sorrow

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sleep, Insomnia, Ethical

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• Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

  Evgeny Morozov

  Vocabulary, Accountability, Innovation

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• When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

  Andre Weil

  Branches, Mathematics, Interest

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• To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.

  Ludwig Borne

  Heart, Men, Voice

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• Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

  Ameen Rihani

  Light, Three, Dangerous

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

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• It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Mistake, Thinking, Argument

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