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• Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

  Arthur Helps

  Dying Slowly, Boredom, Bored

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• Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Growth, Degrees

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

  William James

  Beer, Alcohol, Criticism

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Prayer, Exercise, Work Out

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• Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

  James Madison

  Men, Political, Liberty

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478

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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Diversity

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

  Maimonides

  Men, Differences, Intellectual

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  Maimonides

  Philosophy, Distance, Medicine

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lonely, Reading, Mind

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• I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

  Hilary Mantel

  Thinking, Mountain, Information

  "My other life: Hilary Mantel" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Attitude, Enjoy Life

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2455, e-artnow

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Creativity, Perfection, Creative

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• I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

  James Otis

  Hands, Dying, Slavery

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

  Steven Pinker

  Sensitive, Cheesecake, Spots

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.534, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Mind, Details

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• The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

  Colin Powell

  Business, Health, Destiny

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Hope, Tree, Lord

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  Rainn Wilson

  Laughing, People, Giving

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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• To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Beautiful, Art, Civilization

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?

  Thomas Ligotti

  Thinking, Imagination, Sound

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• Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teaching, Learning, Learning Experience

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.354, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Book, Phones, People

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