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"And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
"Never depend on a single source of income."
"I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes."
"When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development"
"Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source."
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"Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct."
"You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another."
"In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others."
"The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside."
"The source of the ego is God."
"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control."
"The source of all light is in the eye."
"My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power."
"The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves."
"Absorb ideas from every source."
"No stream rises higher than its source"
"Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool."
"Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn."
"I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most."
"All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources."
"The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety."
"Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."
"The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises"
"When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated."
"Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal."
