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• I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

  Joan Baez

  Heart, Soldier, Mind

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• Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

  Harriet Martineau

  Employment, Anticipation, Pursuit

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.81

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• You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.

  Bob Proctor

  Ideas, Giving, Mind

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 20, 2012

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• The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

  Eliphas Levi

  Men, Creation Of Man, Perfect

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

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• The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

  William James

  Character, Roots, Excellence

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Light, Imagination

  Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.178, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.58, Bantam Classics

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• Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Time, Moving, Political

  "The Convenient Reverse of Logic in Our Time". Commencement address at the American University. Printed in "A View from the Stands", book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1986.

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• Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

  William Ralph Inge

  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.

  Larry Dossey

  Buddhist, Memories, Past

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.31, Harmony

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• I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Lying, Missing, Desire

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• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Memories, Home

  Margaret Drabble (2010). “The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .

  Orson Pratt

  Faith, Mind, Bears

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• I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

  David Eddings

  Teacher, Teaching, College

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• Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

  John Stott

  Christian, Mind, Development

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• Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Pain, Empathy, Feelings

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

  Simone Weil

  Choices, World, Worship

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

  Milton Friedman

  Simple, Men, Emotional

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• All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Compassion, People, Spirit

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Memories, Yoga, Ego

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• ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect. Through this surveillance we prescribe what is fitting for every faculty of the soul and every member of the body. For the senses we prescribe what they should take into account and to what extent they should do so, and this exercise of the spiritual law is called self-control.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Exercise

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• What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Sweet, Confused

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• ...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as hope and sadness, joy and fear. They already have a foretaste of what is in store for them after the general judgment. Nor does it happen, as some unbelievers would hold, that upon leaving this world they are turned to nothing. Actually they live more intensely and they concentrate more on the praises of God.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Sadness, Joy

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

  Zhuangzi

  Water, Mind, Lucidity

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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