Abstention Quotes - Page 2

• The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  War, Live Life, Men

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• Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

  Nathaniel Altman

  War, Fighting, Animal

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Allies, Germany, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

  Joseph Hertz

  Reading, Scripture, Worship

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Evening Service for Sabbaths (p. 381),

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• I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.

  Lord Kelvin

  November, Fit, Moments

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