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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint…
— Robert Burns
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to…
— Unknown Author
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character,…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
— Thomas Huxley
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