Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever… — Theresa Rebeck Copy Share Image
If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last… — Pope Martin I Copy Share Image
I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account… — William James Copy Share Image
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
It's about making small changes at first and adding foods to your diet before you take any away; start with one extra… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at… — Jo Ann Emerson Copy Share Image
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and… — Horace Copy Share Image
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words… beyond these, like an immense… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency;… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
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