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L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
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For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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My children are very blessed… That's why I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
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Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted.… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains… — Melissa Rivers Copy Share Image
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I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was… — Peter Milligan Copy Share Image
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