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inspiring rocks self
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. Swami Vivekananda
inspiring ignorance bombs
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness." Swami Vivekananda
inspiring details enjoy
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. Swami Vivekananda
inspiring karma past
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. Swami Vivekananda
inspiring book men
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! Swami Vivekananda
inspiring inspiration successful
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. Swami Vivekananda
inspiring have-faith being-true
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. Swami Vivekananda
inspiring intelligent iron
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet. Swami Vivekananda
inspiring acceptance thinking
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood. Swami Vivekananda
book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
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There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap. Michael Lewis
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
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To me, a book like that has tremendous historical value. Notre Dame's media guide should be a whole lot larger than Southern Mississippi's. Rob Wilson
book data racism
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through monogeny and polygeny, phrenology , recapitulation, and hereditarian IQ theory. He stops at each point to illustrate both the logical inconsistencies of the theories and the prejudicially motivated, albeit unintentional, misuse of data in each case.... A major addition to the scientific literature. Stephen Jay Gould
book style literature
[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete. Stephen Jay Gould
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men six
We've got 10 men working on the Discovery, but we could use six more. Pete Johnson
men writers
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. John le Carre
men righteous surround swamps town woods
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it Henry David Thoreau