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Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best… — Swami Satchidananda
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. — Unknown Author
Better to flee from death than feel its grip. — Homer
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches. — Homer
I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was… — Dolly Parton
Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better. — Homer
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not. — Albert Brooks
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful… — Abraham Lincoln
I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to… — Charles Spurgeon
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. — John Owen
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we… — Laurence Olivier
What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled… — Bessie Anderson Stanley
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better. — John Bunyan
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of… — Richard Sibbes
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are… — Charles Spurgeon
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more… — Erwin Schrodinger
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it… — Isaac Asimov
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,… — Linus Pauling
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
I really do believe that anything in life, any obstacle or challenge, can be made better with humor. — Amy Poehler
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or… — Saint Augustine

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