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Frances Willard
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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Sir Edward Appleton
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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Alfred Tennyson
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
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George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
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Hakim Jami
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.
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Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Carl Gustav Jung
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
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Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Patrick Henry
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
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Dag Hammarskjld
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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