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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
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“I am doing' is referred to as parparinati. To believe any results of the non-Self (parparinam) to be one's own, is parparinati.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
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