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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong
— George Norman Douglas
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For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her
— Bible
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Works before conversion cannot engage God, and works after conversion can not satisfy God - all the endeavor and labor of the creature will never…
— Thomas Manton
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God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil
— Epictetus
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The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms...…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of…
— Bible
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I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with God.I know that…
— Mohandas Gandhi
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It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us,…
— Gregory Wallace Campbell
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No Universe can be INDEPENDENT of man and cannot be created outside the man as long as the man knows it!
— Sorin Cerin
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Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I do…
— Sorin Cerin
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The chief consolation for nature's imperfection in the case of man is that not even for a god are all things possible - for he…
— Imperfection
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Moses said to the Lord, The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, 'Put limits around the mountain and set it…
— Bible
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It is not because God is irrational that we cannot comprehend him; it is because God is rational, and in the nature of the case,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
— Samuel Butler
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How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a…
— Sorin Cerin
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While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable criminal,…
— Liane Norman
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No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some…
— Marian Anderson
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers
— African Proverb
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