Quotes with spirit-filled

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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Beth Simone Noveck The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Thornton Wilder The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • A. P. Herbert The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • John Fischer The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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  • Francis Picabia The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Camille Paglia The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Paul E. Little The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Ben Stein The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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