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We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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Heidi Wills
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
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Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
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Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.
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Edward Clarke
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
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Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
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Tom Clancy (1947 - )
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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Ben Stein
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
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Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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