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Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.
— In p.16 (OM Chanting and Meditation)
We need 720,000 men continuously employed in this industry. This is where you boys come in. Our fighting men will not be able to achieve their purpose unless we get an adequate supply of coal.
Ernest Bevin— Hansard HC 6ser vol 449 col 841
— Speech to recruiting meeting, December 1943. Bevin had introduced a system whereby some men conscripted for National Service would be transferred to working in coal-mining; because of this speech, they were known as 'Bevin boys'.
For though Christ was his most beloved Son, in whom the Father was always well pleased, yet we see that he was not treated with indulgence and tenderness, so that it may be truly said that he was not only continuously afflicted, but that his whole life was a perpetual cross.
john calvin— Page 48 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
nick cave— The Daily Telegraph (November 20, 1997)
This is not lawful for some and unlawful for others, but what is lawful for all extends on continuously through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light.
empedocles— "On Purifications", line 425; p. 211
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
carl friedrich gauss— The World of Mathematics (1956) Edited by J. R. Newman
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
elisabeth kübler-ross— Ch. 6 (Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975))
Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.
bram van velde— Letter to H. E. Kramer, 25-10-1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 44 (english translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to I.P. Chekhov (October 2, 1897)
The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.
Alain de Botton— p. 80 (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009))
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
benjamin graham— Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 14
His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
john maynard keynes— On Isaac Newton, in Essays in Biography (1933)
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
karl marx— Vol. II, Ch. XIX, p. 384
With [Francis] Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.
Marshall McLuhan— p. 220 ("The Agenbite of Outwit")
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
cesare pavese— 1938-05-26
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw— Preface (Getting Married (1908))
Logical analysis applied to mental phenomenon shows that there is but one law of mind, namely that ideas tend to spread continuously and to affect certain others which stand to them in a peculiar relation of affectibility. In this spreading they lose intensity, and especially the power of affecting others, but gain generality and become welded with other ideas.
— Charles Sanders Peirce (1892) The Law of Mind.
Prayer pulls the rope below, and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give but an occasional pluck at the rope; but he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 460. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
cesare pavese— Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1938-05-26
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
— William O. Douglas, (Branzburg v. Hayes, 1972).
This is not lawful for some and unlawful for others, but what is lawful for all extends on continuously through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light .
— "On Purifications", line 425; p. 211 (The Fragments)
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The example of a Mujahid in Allah's Cause-- and Allah knows better who really strives in His Cause----is like a person who fasts and prays continuously. Allah guarantees that He will admit the Mujahid in His Cause into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safely with rewards and war booty."
— Narrated Abu Huraira, in Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 46
Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.
— Amit Ray, in OM Chanting and Meditation (2010), p. 16
Whether I am walking or standing still, whether I sleep or remain awake, the supreme knowledge and intuition , are present with me constantly and continuously.
— Mahavira quoted in "Ethics of Civilization Volume 2: INDIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA to 1800."
...in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world , spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will that is continuously manifested in the universe .
— Albert Schweitzer, in Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision A Sourcebook, p.110
The essence of our God is obscure. It ripens continuously; perhaps victory is strenghened with our every valorous deed, but perhaps even all these agonizing struggles toward deliverance and victory are inferior to the nature of divinity. Whatever it might be, we fight on without certainty, and our virtue, uncertain of any rewards, acquires a profound nobility.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, in ?. Salvatores dei [Ascesis : The Saviors of God] (1923) translated by Kimon Friar as The Saviors of God : Spiritual Exercises(1960), The Action : The Relationship Between Man and Man
continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
marcus aurelius— X, 31. (Book X)
