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Tag Name "Reflection" (975)

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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Ambrose Bierce
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As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
Walter Murch
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Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to understand the purpose or meaning of the universe. These two are cross-related. Purpose implies structure, and structure ought somehow to be interpretable in terms of purpose.
Charles Hard Townes
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
John Dewey
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
Walter Savage Landor
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Calculate owner earnings to get a true reflection of value.
Warren Buffett
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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
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She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
Edie Brickell
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Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
Wayne Dyer
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Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.
Alison Assiter
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What you're seeing, certainly on Instagram, is not real, not a reflection of real life, not an interaction.
Alice Eve
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Politicians are simply reflections of the public.
Wes Jackson
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Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.
Alfred P. Sloan
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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt
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When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.
Alexis Korner
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What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.
William B. Hurlbut
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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden
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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.
William Banting
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
Alexander Pope
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope
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When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.
Alexander Hamilton
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If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.
Alexander Downer
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It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
Alexander Crummell
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