Quotes and Sayings About Spheres
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
-- A. E. WaiteSource : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.1, Courier Corporation
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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.
-- Amelia BloomerSource : Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1994). “Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer”, Praeger Pub Text
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
-- Ann PlatoSource : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand
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I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
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It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.
-- Arthur MachenSource : Arthur Machen (2003). “The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen”, Chaosium Fiction Series
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While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
-- Barney Frank -
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
-- Benito Mussolini -
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
-- Bill Nye -
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
-- Blaise Pascal -
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.
-- Carl Tuttle -
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
-- Charles de Lint -
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
-- Charles Lamb -
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
-- Charles Sumner -
Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
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The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
-- David Harvey -
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
-- David Mitchell -
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
-- Dennis McKenna -
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
-- Diane Cilento -
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Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
-- Edward WestermarckSource : Edward Westermarck (1908). “The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas”
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
-- Elizabeth Oakes SmithSource : Elizabeth Oakes Smith (2015). “The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories”, p.20, Broadview Press
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Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
-- Eugenie Scott -
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.
-- Fabien Barthez -
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The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
-- Franz Liszt