A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest.. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Absolute rest (ehter) and absolute time are not absolute but relative.
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Someone in a closed box canot tell whether he is sitting at rest in the earth's gravitational field or bein accelerated by a rocket in free space.
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The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each others but not if they were moving.
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep herding.
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Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.
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Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens.
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Die hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get.. I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now Ijust have to fill in the rest.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being
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For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God the rest will be given.
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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty one, Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty nine. _Common in the New England States._ Not marble, nor the gilded monume
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Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand, One touch of fire, and all the rest is mystery!
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon; What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
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Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
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