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Letter "R" » reflection
«There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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Knowledge
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«The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.»
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
(Founder)
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«Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.»
«There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.»
Author: Confucius
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bitterest, easiest, gaining, highest, limitation, methods, reflection, The Second, The Third, third
«My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
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express, People Express, poet, preacher, reflection, role
«Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.»
«Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous»
«They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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admitting, afford, consolation, increase, reflection, resolved, seeking, wholly, wretchedness
«Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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knowledge, possible, reflection, self-knowledge, self
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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false witness, forbid, Interesting Times, interests, murder, observation, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, Precepts, reflection, require, steal, witness
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