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• The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Art, Commitment, Our World

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Silence, Risk

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• The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Writing, Men, Doe

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.11, Luigi Pirandello

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• God creates the world anew in each moment.

  John of Ruysbroeck

  World, Moments

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• The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Self, Depth, Divinity

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• It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Littles, Action, Enough

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• When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Stars, Eye, Light

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• It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Done, Shapes, Divine

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• The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Men, Effort, Levels

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  Marquis de Custine

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

  Robert Fritz

  Giving, Energy, Firsts

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• Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

  Kenneth Burke

  Fall, Ideas, Covenant

  Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• My reputation is a media creation.

  John Lydon

  Media, Reputation

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• The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Spiritual, World, Slavery

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• How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!

  Guy Murchie

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

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• Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Children, Love And Freedom, Upbringing

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• Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Animal, Men, Giving

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”

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• Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Jobs, Smart, Keys

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• You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

  Swizz Beatz

  Clubs, Radio, Knows

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• We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

  Bruce Babbitt

  God's Creation, Needs, Harmony

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  Haley Barbour

  Hurt, Jobs, Want

  "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

  John Bruton

  Europe, Half, Century

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• Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

  Ken Blackwell

  Jobs, Government, Friendly

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