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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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Mary Ingraham Bunting
When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.
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Eva Pern
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
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Native American Prayer
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
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Gene Roddenberry
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
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Benjamin Franklin
I am in the prime of senility.
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Jerry Coleman
At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal '5
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Ted Morgan
The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.
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Georges Eliot, Middlemarch
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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