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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I regard belief as a form of brain damage. — Robert Anton Wilson
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. — William James
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.… — Louis Kronenberger
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech. — Ben Jonson
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt… — H. L. Mencken
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton
Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times. — Doreen Virtue
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we… — Marianne Williamson
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,… — Joseph Conrad
Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time,… — Robert Collier
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. — Kerry Thornley
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy. — Richard Bach

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