Maintaining Quotes - Page 8

• There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Sacred, Way

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

  Vladimir Putin

  Needs, Facts, Funding

  Source: thesaker.is

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• [The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Decision, Political

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.

  Pell James

  People, Goofy, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

  John Stoltenberg

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.92, Routledge

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• And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

  Plato

  Children, Educational, Character

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• There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.

  Jim Clemmer

  Change, Fall, Maintaining The Status Quo

  Jim Clemmer (1999). “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, p.14, Jim Clemmer

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• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
  which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease.
  Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life
  heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Meditation Practice, Healthy, Vitality

  B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I grew up in a household where the FryDaddy was always bubbling, and butter and salt were never in short supply. I've never been one to choose the healthy option over the non-healthy option if the healthy option was lacking in taste. I believe a little bad is good for you from time to time. When it comes to maintaining a healthy soul, nothing beats traveling.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Believe, Healthy, Soul

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: On ​​Being Stereotyped, ​​His Deep-Fried Childhood, and Letting Failure Make You Stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Country, Justice, Expectations

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• We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

  Brenda Strong

  Mind, Beginners, Fundamentals

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• I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Way, Belief, Committed

  "Q & A With Miracle Mistress Gabrielle Bernstein, Author of May Cause Miracles". Interview with Latham Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Party, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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• The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Mean, Simple, Special

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• There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

  Barney Frank

  Sex, People, Difficulty

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• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

  Aristotle

  Cutting, Errors, Law

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2080, Princeton University Press

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• Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Talking

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• A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

  Steve Martin

  Self, Advice, Anecdotes

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• Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Running, Lonely, Long

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• Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Important, Dignity

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• Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Real, Self Esteem

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• A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Simple, People, Joy

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• Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

  Arlene Croce

  Reality, Style, Looks

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