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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
Bill Hybels
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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
Mark Twain
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The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.
Bill Withers
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Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizner
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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
Alister E. McGrath
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Avoid prologues: they can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
Elmore Leonard
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
A. A. Milne
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There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.
Masaaki Imai
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In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.
Gary D. Schmidt
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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
Arthur Machen
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We are focusing Philip Morris organization much more on the new business. We will have very few new traditional product introductions, and as markets switch to IQOS we would remove resources from the old business completely.Next year IQOS becomes profitable, so even the financing from these traditional businesses isn't necessary anymore, because it becomes fully self-sustaining.
Andre Calantzopoulos
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After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.
Frederick Lenz
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Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.
Frederick Lenz
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I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.
Janni Lee Simner
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I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
William James
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The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.
Frederick Lenz
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Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.
Frederick Lenz
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Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's aware there's a reader, which goes all the way back to Montaigne's often-used address "dear reader," or his brief introduction to Essais: "To the Reader." It can be done in a myriad of ways.
Jill Talbot
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Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.
Frederick Lenz
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We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different.
Frederick Lenz
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Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.
Frederick Lenz
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I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.
Zach Condon
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This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!
Frederick Lenz
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I assume I don't need an introduction.
Anne Rice
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In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.
Frederick Lenz
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As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.
Chuck Grassley
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Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
Frederick Lenz
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Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
Frederick Lenz
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Maybe that's why I don't like religion because the first introduction to it was, you don't get to do that thing you just discovered that you really enjoy.
Aziz Ansari
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People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.
Frederick Lenz
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If I ever saw him again,he was going to get a proper introduction to Tasey.
Kiersten White
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The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
Frederick Lenz