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Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated… — John Ricard
It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on… — John Henry Newman
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. — Sigmund Freud
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at… — E. O. Wilson
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the… — Swami Vivekananda
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching… — Swami Vivekananda
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
We are not going to succeed in everything we attempt in life. That's a guarantee. In fact, the more we do in life, the more… — Susan Jeffers
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and… — M R DeHaan
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to… — Aberjhani
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when… — Peggy Noonan
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby… — Michael Parenti
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto… — Eric Hoffer
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and… — Vaclav Havel
Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs… — Paul Zollo
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick
I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too.… — William J. Clinton
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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