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• I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Self, Difficult, Wanted

  "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Two, Looks, Samurai

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.67, Bottom of the Hill

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• The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Space, Special, Doe

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• It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.

  Ole Hallesby

  Children, Father, Desire

  Ole Hallesby (1975). "Prayer", Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Wife, Fool

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• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

  Séneca el Joven

  Sadness, Tears, Flow

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• What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

  Séneca el Joven

  Men, Doe, Demand

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• I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

  Karl Marx

  Attitude, Two, Principles

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• La prensa, como el fuego, es un excelente servidor, pero un terrible amo.

  James F. Cooper

  Fire, Journalism, Excellent

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Libro de James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• Hoy en día los hombres no pueden amar siete noches, sino que deben tener todos sus deseos: que el amor no puede durar por la razón, porque donde se les concede pronto y apresurado, el calor pronto se enfría. Así es el amor hoy en día, pronto caliente pronto frío: esto no es estabilidad. Pero el amor antiguo no era así.

  Thomas Malory

  Love, Night, Men

  Sir Thomas Malory (1936). “A Shorter Malory”

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• El objetivo de la búsqueda de la justicia no debe ser simplemente que se haga justicia, sino que también se produzca la reconciliación.

  Miroslav Volf

  Agreement, Law, Justice

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• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Running, Encouragement

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• Porque lo que desea el amante, lo desea la amada; lo que ella le pide, él se adelanta a concedérselo. Sin un acuerdo como éste, el amor no es más que un vínculo y una restricción.

  María de Francia

  Love Is, Lovers, Beloved

  Marie de France (2015). "Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France", p.125, Xist Publishing.

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• A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

  Hjalmar Branting

  Equality, Humanity, Doe

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• The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

  John Cage

  Purpose, Operations, Highest

  John Cage (2010). "Silence: Lectures and Writings", p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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• I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Weakness, Credit

  Said about Charles Evans Hughes in November 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, p. 224, 1930.

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• No es porque la verdad sea demasiado difícil de ver por lo que cometemos errores... cometemos errores porque lo más fácil y cómodo para nosotros es buscar la comprensión allí donde concuerda con nuestras emociones, especialmente las egoístas.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Selfish, Mistake, Emotion

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• The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Strong, Rights, Elements

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

  Alexander Pope

  Creativity, Destiny, Creative

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary, Doe, True Happiness

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932.

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• Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

  Arthur Peacocke

  World, Debate, Natural

  Arthur Peacocke (2005). “The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science”, p.13, ATF Press

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• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  Lech Walesa

  Courage, Lying, Responsibility

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• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Doe, Matter, Celibacy

  "Celibacy and the Priesthood: An Interview with the Future Pope Benedict XVI". Interview with Peter Seewald, www.catholicculture.org.

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• Donde el poder se mezcla con el ingenio, hay demasiado buen acuerdo en un gobierno.

  Isabel I

  Government, Might, Wit

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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