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  • Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

    Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company
  • The more you know, the less you need.

    Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin
  • Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

    Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons
  • The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

    Pope Francis (2013). “Lumen Fidei: The Light of Faith”, p.52, Image
  • The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

  • Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

    Men   Steps   World  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books
  • There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

  • The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

    "The Edict of Chandigarh". chandigarh.gov.in. December 17, 1959.
  • Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

    Struggle   Battle   Chess  
  • Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

    Men   People   Energy  
  • I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.

    Numbers   People   Trying  
    "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploring Cosmic Frontiers". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 2, 2012.
  • Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures.

    Stars   Moon   Ideas  
  • It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

    "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.
  • Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

  • Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

    Justus von Liebig (1844). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner”, p.10
  • A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

    David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult
  • It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

  • We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

    Pain   Laughter   Silly  
  • If a man really sets his heart upon the will of God, God will enlighten a little child to tell that man what is His will. But if a man does not truly desire the will of God, even if he goes in search of a prophet, God will put into the heart of the prophet a reply like the deception in his own heart.

  • I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.

    Mom   Thinking   Guy  
  • It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

    Nice   Eight   Years  
    "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.

    Lying   Light   Miracle  
  • EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

    "A Dictionary of the English Language".
  • I would like to enlighten people.

  • You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

    Insecure   Light   Giving  
  • Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1996). “The Perfect Way”, p.229, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
  • God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

    Light   West   East  
  • For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

    Giving   Shining   Lame  
    John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.

    Source: therumpus.net
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