“ Nobody's kissing my ass, unfortunately. I could use a little. But then again, my personality isn't conducive to butt-kissing. ”
- Christina Ricci- Copy
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“ I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life. ”
- Bob Mould- Copy
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“ Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. ”
- Georg Christoph Litchenberg- Copy
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“ He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity — a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. ”
- Buddha- Copy
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“ Believe nothing merely because you have been told it… Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide. ”
- Buddhist Aphorism- Copy
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“ Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders… ”
- Buddha- Copy
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