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greatness sensual riches
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none David Brainerd
greatness doe goodness
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. Athenaeus
greatness swings ideas
Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did. Arnold Palmer
greatness ideas people
The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others. Denis Waitley
greatness artist landscape
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there. Alain de Botton
greatness misery prove
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch. Blaise Pascal
greatness men ignorant
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.
greatness men tree
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
greatness men touching
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
ideas car theatre
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something. David Henry Hwang
ideas viewpoints politics
Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear. David Horowitz
ideas long should
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. David Hilbert
ideas people want
I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple. David Icke
ideas challenges world
If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.
ideas emotion human-nature
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. David Hume
ideas force vivacity
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
ideas giving feelings
When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
ideas mind causes
A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
people way wonderful
Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved. David Walton
people satire social
Social satire has been around since people have been around. David Walliams
people pot compelled
People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it. David Roberts
people parent important
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. David Rockefeller
people tire hoot
People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly. David Hyde Pierce
people great-respect
I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.
people freedom-of-speech magazines
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
people today way
Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.
people awakening awareness
We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.