When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.
We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside. . . . If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.
It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality -- to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.
You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!
You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.
You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc. , it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
Each of us by our daily acts of peace and our commitment to building a better world can inspire others and help create a groundswell for peace too powerful to be turned aside.
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
Put your ego aside and play as a team.