- Misfortunes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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Where lasting satisfaction actually comes from.
These lines circle a shared idea: real reward tends to come from something close and specific, whether that's careful scientific observation or simple daily companionship. A few even name horses, dogs, and the ocean as reliable sources of joy. Related reflections live under Life.
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
- Quantum
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at objective statements concerning these distributions.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there's some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don't relate to any of that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020