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Letter "I" » inclination
«One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.»
«One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.»
«The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.»
Author: Erich Sauer
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Thought
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«There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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«Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.»
«No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.»
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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childlike, demands, develop, Fields, guide, inclination, playing field, province, Provinces of, recognition, school, school teacher, the point, The Teacher
«Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination»
«The soul becomes steady, and does not waver, by the natural inclination of the Guru's Loving Will.»
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