"Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul."
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"When you connect to your source, you can create anything you'd like to have in your life."
"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
"I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know."
"Selfless action is a source of strength."
"Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source."
"A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary."
"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."
"the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life."
"Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others"
"There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters."
"The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else."
"A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet."
"We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories."
"A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come."
"The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life."
"Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority."
"One source of the sublime is infinity."
"You came from a source."
"When you are saying you want to feel good, what you really are saying is you want to feel God: I want my thoughts to be the same as the source from which I emanated."