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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.: Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
As I was walking up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.: Hughes Mearns
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.: Heda Bejar
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.: Juan Ramon Jiminez
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
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Sending important messages via text is the coward’s way out. Don’t be the person who texts important messages. It’s rude, inconsiderate, and, yes, cowardly.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.: Max L. Forman
The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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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.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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