Unbroken Quotes - Page 5

• No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Needs, Unions

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• Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Gratitude, Real, Intelligent

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• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Awareness, Thread

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.13, Rodale

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• I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Fifty, Possibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.87, A&C Black

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• All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.

  Archibald Garrod

  Acid, Peculiar, Belief

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• Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, Years, Sky

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• I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

  William Faulkner

  Time, Long, Mind

  William Faulkner (2013). “The Sound And The Fury”, p.63, Random House

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• The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  World, Connected, Series

  Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (1951). “Genetics and the origin of species”

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• Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

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• Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken. So they have no jobs. They have horrible education. They have no safety or security and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Jobs, Years

  Source: time.com

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to the African American community and to the Hispanic community: What the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. We will make them good. We'll make them safe. We'll bring back jobs. We'll create good, good schools and education.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Years

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

  David Bohm

  Civilization, Way, Separation

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• There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Single Life, Vices, Lessons

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• We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Cities, Long

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unique, Succession, Persons

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Devotion, Receptivity

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• In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Years, Cities

  Source: time.com

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• The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Math, June, July

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.

  Stephen Leacock

  Art, Four, Firsts

  Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies (1981). “The Penguin Stephen Leacock”, Penguin ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

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• See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Strong, Rain, Heart

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• That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.

  John McCain

  Talking, Biden

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Thinking, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.25, Advaita Ashrama

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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• The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Healing, Order

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