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«When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope»
Author: Henri Nouwen
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expressions, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, pains, signs, transformed
«The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?»
Author: Max De Pree
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Achievement,
Leadership,
Learning
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«The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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«The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.»
«Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: / And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.»
Author: Bible
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diver, divers, earthquakes, famines, fearful, Great Famine, kingdom, sights, signs
«The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.»
«The Negro will only be truly free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive selfhood his own emancipation proclamation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
assertive, depths, emancipation, ink, Negro, pen, proclamation, proclamations, reaches, signs
«The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.»
«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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