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J. Hart
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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John Updike
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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Andr Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Native American
The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so.
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Olive Schreiner
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
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Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.
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Hindu Spiritual
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds.
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George Shultz
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
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Russell Hoban
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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James Agee
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
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