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A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Nepal is our closest neighbour, and we must make every effort to ensure that, as a small neighbour, we attend to their… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
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Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving… — Javan Copy Share Image
Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
There is a deliberate effort to undermine food culture to sell us processed food. The family meal is a challenge if you're… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened… — William A. Connelly Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways,… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train… — Julia Mancuso Copy Share Image
Make an effort to exert yourself-everyday. Don't fail because you never allowed yourself to get started! Don't avoid success because you think… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
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The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We have to be very cognizant of the fact that 90 percent of the electronic media in this country is owned, operated,… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image