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It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

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I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

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Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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External nature is only internal nature writ large. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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