John Ruskin Quotes

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

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• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
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• The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Health

• I've been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men's clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like - projecting strength through femininity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Men
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• By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

  

  Bill Maher
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• The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

  

  Idries Shah
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  • Person
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• Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Knowledge
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• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
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• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
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• Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Answers
  • Reveal

• Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Doe
  • Madness

• God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Consciousness
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• Waste is only waste if we waste it.

  

  will.i.am
  • Waste

• When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

  

  Rachel Billington
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Words
  • Play
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• If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of the "deceitfulness of wealth" . The psalmist warns, "Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them" . The dangers of materialism are far-reaching. We should not think that we're immune to the value-changing nature of wealth.

  

  Randy Alcorn
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• The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one's faith or belief, belongs to God.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Sun
  • Rain

• It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Souls
  • Whip