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To be closer to God, be closer to people.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Famous Quotes

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
~Author : Shirley Mount Hufstedler Inspirational Sayings
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
~Author : Dolly Parton Nice Quotes

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
~Author : Confucius The Confucian Analects Meaningful Sayings

The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode
~Author : Andrew Schneider Wise Quotes

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men
~Author : Henry B Adams Motivational Sayings

Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.
~Author : Mark Twain Famous Quotes

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
~Author : W Wirt Inspirational Sayings

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
~Author : Oscar Wilde The Remarkable Rocket Famous Quotes

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Inspirational Sayings

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
~Author : Max Weinreich Nice Quotes

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~Author : Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Chapter 7 Great Sayings

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
~Author : Jules Renard Meaningful Sayings

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
~Author : Saint Thomas Aquinas Two Precepts of Charity Wise Quotes

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Motivational Sayings

Americans never quit.
~Author : General Douglas Macarthur Famous Quotes

The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
~Author : Phillips Brooks Inspirational Sayings

Wachowski Brothers The Matrix Reloaded Famous Quotes

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?
~Author : Wachowski Brothers The Matrix Reloaded Famous Quotes

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
~Author : Arthur C Clarke Inspirational Sayings

Well behaved women seldom make history.
~Author : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Nice Quotes

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
~Author : Hermann Hesse Great Sayings

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
~Author : Bernard Grasset Meaningful Sayings

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
~Author : Spanish Proverb Wise Quotes

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Motivational Sayings

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.
~Author : Che Guevara His last words spoken to his assassin Famous Quotes

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
~Author : John Gall Inspirational Sayings

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
~Author : WS Gilbert Famous Quotes

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
~Author : VII Putnam Inspirational Sayings

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
~Author : Samuel Butler Nice Quotes

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln A House Divided Great Sayings

Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts)
~Author : Gaius Julius Caesar Meaningful Sayings

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.
~Author : Phocylides Wise Quotes

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
~Author : Michael Konda Motivational Sayings

Television is the triumph of machine over people.
~Author : Fred Allen Famous Quotes

Listening is a form of accepting.
~Author : Stella Terrill Mann Inspirational Sayings

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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
~Author : Pliny the Elder Famous Quotes

Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones.
~Author : Montagu Butler Inspirational Sayings

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
~Author : Pamela Ribon Nice Quotes

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
~Author : James Thurber Great Sayings

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Meaningful Sayings

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
~Author : George Gordon Byron Wise Quotes

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
~Author : Herman Hesse Motivational Sayings

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
~Author : Phillips Brooks Famous Quotes

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle Inspirational Sayings

Proverbs 2918 Famous Quotes

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
~Author : Proverbs 2918 Famous Quotes

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Inspirational Sayings

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
~Author : Arthur Schnabel Nice Quotes

Of two evils choose neither.
~Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon Great Sayings

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
~Author : William Bridges Meaningful Sayings

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
~Author : Hume Cronyn Wise Quotes

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.
~Author : Martin Routh Motivational Sayings

Why be a man when you can be a success?
~Author : Bertolt Brecht Famous Quotes

Stupid is a boundless concept.
~Author : Anonymous Inspirational Sayings