Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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In any relationship, even when it came to my relationship with Usher, when it was time to make a move, I had… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
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Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
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There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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