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«To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for t»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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done for, educate, granted, gratitude, originates, originate in, originating, seek out, T, the Action
«The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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«Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Truth
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«Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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determine, function, obey, orders, originate, originate in, originating, patriot, prerogative, prerogatives, servant, temporary, the government
«The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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