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ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Charles Dickens
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
ideas stink masters
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
ideas matter certain
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common-sense gasoline pumps
Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump. Bob Ney
common-sense common make-sense
It makes sense that there is no sense without God. Edith Schaeffer
common-sense done moderation
Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense. Eartha Kitt
common-sense novelty admiration
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. David Hume
reform spirit holy
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform! Aiden Wilson Tozer
reform putin predecessors
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. Alexei Navalny
reform world womens-suffrage
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. Susan B. Anthony
reforms structural voices
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform. Enrique Pena Nieto
reform world groups
There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category. Barbara Mikulski
reform essentials obstacles
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform. Alexander Hamilton
reform care lines
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. Abraham Verghese
reform tasks generations
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. Albert Camus
reform dialect facts
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. David Foster Wallace