Reservoirs Quotes - Page 5

• Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Buddhist, Moving

  Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.7, Sounds True

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

  David Lynch

  Children, Should Have, Class

  "Paul McCartney signs on for NYC benefit" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2009.

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• The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

  William James

  Happiness, Dream, Spiritual

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• Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.

  James Van Praagh

  Motivational, Ideas, Mind

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• Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

  Scott Cunningham

  Vegetables, Years, Long

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• Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Writing, White, Space

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Years, Data, America

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• In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.

  Ron Chernow

  Book, Destiny, Waiting

  Charles Richard Johnson, Ron Chernow (1991). “In Search of a Voice”

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• Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Lying, Creativity, Meditation

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• In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification.  These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.

  Jacque Fresco

  Men, Light, Self

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• Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teacher, Teaching, Water Of Life

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• If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

  Germaine Greer

  Real, Love Is, Self

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• ... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Moving, Light

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• Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

  Frank Herbert

  Chance, Madness, Surprise

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• Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

  Michael Parenti

  Political, Buttons, Revolution

  "Dirty Truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.

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• When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

  Elif Batuman

  Writing, Drawing, Faithful

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, People

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• People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

  Johnny Otis

  Country, America, People

  "A Life in R&B / Johnny Otis looks back on his remarkable career, and at the end of an era" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. April 4, 2000.

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• Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

  Frederick The Great

  Vanity, Water, Yards

  Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great. Letter 221, 1927.

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• Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  Benjamin Graham

  Cost, Financial, Great Depression

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter IX, The Cost of the Reservoir Plan, p. 114, 1937.

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• The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.

  Benjamin Graham

  War, Mean, Important

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p. 50, 1937.

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• The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Philosophy, Engineering, Essence

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part V, Chapter XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, p. 232, 1937.

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