According Quotes
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The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
Lao Tzu
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
Honore de Balzac
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
Leon Trotsky
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.
Marianne Williamson
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We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
Joshua A. Norton
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Immanuel Kant
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende
