27 Quotes About Descent
- Author Victor Hugo
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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- Author Ernest Hemingway
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Gradually, then suddenly.
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- Author Gustav Meyrink
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Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.
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- Author Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
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At the outset God-the-Preceptor ushers in the body in the process of Descent (Nigam) and stops in the fourth sheath as causal body. Life-power in embryo at first gets awakened in the body of God-the-Preceptor. Without the body of God-the-Preceptor, life-power never awakes, nor she can have an upward motion.
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- Author Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
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A man can play the role of a teacher only when God in Descent takes the manikin form (Manusratan) in him, otherwise not. In this stage, it is seen that God is the doer and author of everything from within.
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- Author Henry Louis Gates
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
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- Author William Gass
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The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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- Author Verne Lundquist
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Think about a descent from top to the bottom.
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- Author Francis Parkman
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Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
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