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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 47
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Gerald R. Ford
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)
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John Owen
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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Robin Tyler
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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Louis D. Brandeis
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
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Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Chinese Proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
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George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
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Bret Harte
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
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