The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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