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To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
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We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where… — Mohammad Rabbani Copy Share Image
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense:… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
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No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career… — David Boudia Copy Share Image
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It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
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When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the… — Mark Margolis Copy Share Image
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through… — Stanley J. Grenz Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image