Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 8

• It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

  Katharine Kolcaba

  Life, Health, Nursing

  Katharine Kolcaba (2003). “Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research”, p.20, Springer Publishing Company

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• When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

  Sandra Bernhard

  Feel Good, Watches, News

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• When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  Gerrit Smith

  Home, Men, Good Man

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.8

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• Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

  Ron Carlson

  Stones, Idolatry, Concepts

  Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.181, Harvest House Publishers

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• There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Wise, Spiritual, Evil

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Humor, Hay Fever

  Letter to Max Eastman, 1936.

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

  Edward Carpenter

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

  Rajneesh

  Selfish, Love You, Love Yourself

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• Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Masters, Whole

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• If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.

  David Prosser, Jr.

  Mean, Gun, Bears

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• The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Gun, Weapons, Bearing Arms

  "The Weapon Shop". "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" Magazine, December 1942.

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• I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

  Les Dawson

  Witty, Wind, Doctors

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• When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

  Tony Benn

  Witty, Thinking, People

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• A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

  Montague Burton

  Witty, Business, House

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• The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

  Sid Caesar

  Witty, People, Humour

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• No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

  James Burgh

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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• God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

  Rajneesh

  Depth, Objects

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• "Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Body, Speak

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• Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Ego, Resolution

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• I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

  Rajneesh

  Golden, Life Is, Spontaneity

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• Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Two

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• Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

  Rajneesh

  People, Perfect, Interesting

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• Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.

  Rajneesh

  Mirrors, Faces, Lovers

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• If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

  Rajneesh

  Together, Can Not, Ifs

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