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Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue. — Charles Dudley Warner
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under… — Henri Matisse
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in… — George W. Bush
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act… — Thomas Jefferson
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and… — Abraham Lincoln
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show… — Marya Mannes
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the… — Cory Doctorow
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they… — George Washington
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to… — Max Lerner
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times… — John Powell
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt
Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather… — R. Kelly
The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed. — Henry M. Morris
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson

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