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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,… — Thomas Jefferson
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through… — Darcy O'Brien
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to… — Spencer W. Kimball
I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with it. I think… — Unknown Author
In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the… — David Hurn
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person… — Harvey Broome
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must… — Mahatma Gandhi
These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current.… — Rajneesh
We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done… — Charles Dickens
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton
Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare… — George W. Bush
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. — John Quincy Adams
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. — Alexis de Tocqueville
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not… — George Washington
Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers… — Jose Antonio Vargas
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the… — Ludwig von Mises
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and… — Samuel Adams
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage… — James Freeman Clarke
The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the sunrise of creation to all… — Bruce R. McConkie
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means… — Alexander Hamilton
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. — Thomas Merton

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