"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
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"Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically."
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"Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'"
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"Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free."
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"Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation."
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"I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world."
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"Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream."
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"You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty."
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"A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied."
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"God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken."
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"It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
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"Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go"
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"To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you."
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"When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words."
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"Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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"The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit."
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"Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them"
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"One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another."
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"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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