Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.
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I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
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You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?
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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.
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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
