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• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Spring, Destiny

  Early Dramas The Death of Wallenstein Act II, Scene III

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• The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

  Will Self

  Past, Land, Anxiety

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• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Song, Moving, Soul

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• Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

  William Shatner

  Long, Income, Captain Kirk

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• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

  Herbert Simon

  Spiritual, Science, Interesting

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

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• I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

  Grace Slick

  People, Trying, Levels

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• A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

  Sydney Smith

  Happiness, Home, House

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “Letters”, p.501

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• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Tony Snow

  Military, Giving, Liberty

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• If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

  Thomas Sowell

  Media, Differences, People

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• Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

  Herbert Spencer

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

  Charles Stanley

  Choices, Three, Tests

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• Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

  Stendhal

  Power, Love Is, Firsts

  Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

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• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Inappropriate, British

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.256, Vintage

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• In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Struggle, Assets

  "Net Worth". www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

  David Suzuki

  Running, Opportunity, Energy

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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Love Is, Essence, Soul

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Loneliness, Emotional, Suffering

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

  Edward Thorndike

  Real, Men, Differences

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.36, Routledge

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• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Today, Incredibles

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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