You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made, but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was "ET," the second "Schindler's List," and third is "Saving Private Ryan". ~Steven Spielberg
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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