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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our… — John Owen
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order… — Wernher von Braun
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. — Orhan Pamuk
You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which… — Ramana Maharshi
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a… — Joseph Conrad
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. — Gloria Swanson
The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or… — Rajneesh
The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is… — Rajneesh
To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new… — Rajneesh
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner… — Chin-Ning Chu
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. — Robert K. Greenleaf
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. — Harold MacMillan
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind. — Logan Pearsall Smith
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in… — Oscar Wilde
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen… — Al Gore
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson

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