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Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.
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At thirty-six, bereft, brimming with grief and thwarted love,Quoyle steered away to Newfoundland, the rock that had generated his ancestors, a place he had never been nor thought to go.
Annie Proulx— 1993 The Shipping News, ch.1.
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
barbara tuchman— p. 469 (A Distant Mirror (1978))
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by “the death of God” and of the subordinate god, Eros.
Allan Bloom— p. 15 (Love and Friendship (1993))
There is no such thing as an achieved liberty; like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.
robert h. jackson— P. 962. ("The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary" (1953))
For a daily Agnihotra ( Balivaishva ) a small copper pot is used. The inverted pyramid shaped Agnihotra pot receives, generates, and decentralizes electrosphere ....Apart from the pyramid shape, some other special symmetric geometrical designs are also used according to the kind of energy fields and the cosmic currents required to be generated by the Yagna.
— In P.9 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see they very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.
— Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984).
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.
leonid brezhnev— As quoted in Selected Speeches and Writings (1980) edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.
coretta scott king— Address at Georgia State University (15 February 2000)
Whatever the costs in terms of sacrifice, the fruits of resistance are always greater than the damage generated from resignation to occupation, succumbing to its blows and acquiescing to its conditions.
naim qassem— .
His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.
wilfrid sheed— "The Interview as Art" (1976), p. 208
— Referring to W. H. Auden
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch. XIII The Beginning and the End, 3. The Supreme Moment and After
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical – in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
antoni tàpies— p. 28 (In: Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003, 2004)
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
donald knuth— Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II, 1969, section 3.1
"Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible."
paulo freire— Chapter 2 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.
jürgen habermas— p.222 (The structural transformation of the public sphere, 1963/1991)
The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.
stephen hawking— From an appearance in the Discovery Channel program Alien Planet (14 May 2005)
The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.
robert heilbroner— Chapter II, Part 5, The Terrible Ascent, p. 81
For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it’s the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has implicitly generated.
Susan Sontag— “‘Thinking against oneself’: reflections on Cioran,” p. 79
I'm a very large creator of wealth, I like that. I like finding new companies and investing in them very early and seeing an enormous amount of wealth being generated.
— Alberto Vilar, from his interview in The Sunday Times, 19th March 2000.
Principle of causality is fundamental to human thinking, and it has been observed experimentally that this assumption leads to complex hypothesis formation by human subjects attempting to solve comparatively simple problems involving a causal randomly generated events
— Brian R. Gaines (1976) "On the Complexity of Causal Models" in: International Journal of General Systems, 1977.
Gracefulness is not imposed from without but generated from within. Gracefulness is 'the immateriality which . . . passes into matter.' In this formulation, the soul , or what Bergson elsewhere calls the élan vital , the life force, shapes the matter that contains it. The soul is not immobilized by matter, as it is in comedy , but remains infinitely supple and perpetually in motion.
— Henry Bergson, in Alan Ackerman Seeing Things: From Shakespeare to Pixar, University of Toronto Press, 20 August 2011, p.84
— The organic form of drama is most clearly suggested in Bergson's use of the word 'gracefulness' [la grâce].
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
donald knuth— Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II, 1969, section 3.1
Until the beginning of the twentieth century most of Ahmedabad’s population resided within the Fort Walls [on the eastern bank of the Sabaramati River. The opening of the first Ahmedabad textile mill in 1861 and of the railway line between Ahmedabad and Bombay [now Mumbai] three years was a harbinger of the city’s rapid expansion. The developing textile industry generated waves of migration into the city and extensive growth of its population and territory.
— Ornit Shani, in Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat, Cambridge University Press, 12 July 2007, p.25
Moksha or freedom is the Swabhava, the inherent constitution and essence of the soul and is not to be supposed as generated in the Soul through the action of anything else.
— Nalini Kanta Brahma, in “The Fundamentals Of Religion (22 September 2007)”, p.101
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
— Margaret Wheatley, as quoted in 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself (2004) by Steve Chandler, p. 123
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.
— As quoted in Selected Speeches and Writings (1980) edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov
Celebrities always get a lot of interest and the passing of well-known figures makes people want to learn more about them. Despite that, some of the more traditional aspects of British life, from the Grand National to the royal birth, have generated many Google searches and will be remembered as events that have characterized the year.
— Claudine Beaumont, one of Google's workers, "Facebook tops Google searches for UK in 2013", December 17, 2013.
Anaximander the Milesian, affirmed the infinite to be the first principle, and that all things are generated out of it, and corrupted again into it. His infinite is nothing else but matter.
— Plutarch, as quoted by Benjamin Franklin Cocker in Christianity and Greek Philosophy; Or, The Relation Between Spontaneous and Reflective Thought in Greece and the Positive Teaching of Christ and His Apostles (1872)
