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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government. – William Jennings Bryan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. – Warren Buffett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. – Charles Kingsley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Produce great men, the rest follows. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. – Søren Kierkegaard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out of these attachments suffering follows. Negative empathy is a kind of reaction to a situation, whereas positive empathy is internal response of peace love and tranquility.... In positive empathy, your deep tranquility, joy and peace activates the mirror neurons of the others, whereas in negative empathy your mirror neurons are activated by the disturbance of others. Meditation especially loving kindness meditation increases the positive empathy. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. – Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – Buddha	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.” Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.” Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before. – Alan Ashley-Pitt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. – David T. Wolf	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. – R. S. Donnell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. – Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. – Joanne Field	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Daylight follows a dark night. – Maasai Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. – Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha, The Dharmapada	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you. – Sidney Madwed	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous. – Sir Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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