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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.: Erich Segal
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.: Marilyn C. Barrick
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.: Jarvis Klem
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.': Jef Mallett, Frazz, 07-29-07
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.: Jane Goodall (1934 - ), Lecture in Salt Lake City, Utah, 03-04-08
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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