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• Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 21, 2014

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• When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

  Aristotle

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Law, Community

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• Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Curiosity, Spirit, Incontinence

  Jeremy Taylor (1839). “Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers: Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian...”, p.101

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• I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Book, Writing, Film

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• The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

  Adam Smith

  Vanity, Secret, Objects

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.421

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• The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Knowing, Essentials

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.287

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• No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Thinking, Reality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

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• How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Spiritual, Needs, Realizing

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• One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, People, Function

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• Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

  Barbara Brennan

  Healing, Order, Be Who You Are

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• Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.

  Omar Suleiman

  Islam, Causes, Let Down

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 22, 2015

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• We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.

  John Ashcroft

  Powerful, Race, Law

  "America Under Attack: Justice Department Briefing". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2001.

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• Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

  Charles Lyell

  Lying, Independent, Science

  Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation by Charles Lyell”, p.421

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• How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Soccer, Capes, May

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• Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Discipline, Reason, Should

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.52

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• If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Children, Native American, Journey

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• It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

  William Penn

  Men, Long, People

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• I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Recovery, Thinking, Sober

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• It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hurt, Health, Dark

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.103, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Pain, Health, Science

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. Martin Luther If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!

  Matthew Simpson

  New Year, Angel, Son

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• And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Strong, War, Animal

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• Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land.

  George Washington

  Jesus, Godly, Land

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• Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

  Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn

  Meaningful, Lunch, Together

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