"It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers."
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"Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice."
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"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact."
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"I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?"
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"Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!"
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"Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief."
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"I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul."
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"Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag."
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"A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)"
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"I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should."
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"Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity."
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"I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own."
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"And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."
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"There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money"
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"The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference."
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"Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."
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"Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy."
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"Practice is practice, chicken is chicken."
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"Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice."
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"Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet."
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