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• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Book, Wealth Of Knowledge

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• The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Interesting, Decision

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• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Memorable, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

  Barry Commoner

  Agriculture, People, Sick

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

  Wendy Cope

  Happy Life, Thinking, Plot

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• My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Reading, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.22, A&C Black

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• There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Diversity, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• No matter how many frustrations come along, or how many problems arise, I never lose the feeling of how lucky I am. I'm so pleased to be doing a job that makes me laugh every day. I'm aware that it's a huge privilege.

  Sharon Horgan

  Jobs, Frustration, Laughing

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• The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Secret, Benefits

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.167

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• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Cosmos, Earth, Breathe

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  Samuel Johnson

  Being Yourself, Lexicographer, Criminal Mind

  The Rambler, No. 135, July 02, 1751.

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• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, People, Glory

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.156

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• Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Daryn Kagan

  War, People, Ordinary

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• But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Reality, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1970). “The essential Kant”, Signet

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• Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

  Anish Kapoor

  Matter, Far Away, Consideration

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• Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Names, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

  Guru Nanak

  Ignorance, Self, Snakes

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• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Philosophy, Irrelevance

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Needs

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• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

  Margaret Sanger

  Past, Reality, Silence

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• Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Multitasking, Madness, Distraction

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• A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Love, Peace, Buddhist

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• The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

  James Surowiecki

  Desire, Sirens, Synergy

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• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Teaching, Essence

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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