The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable… — Timothy Dwight IV Copy Share Image
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
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It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
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Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
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