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You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains… — Eugene Delacroix
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and… — C.S. Lewis
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and… — Johan Huizinga
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . .… — Anna Komnene
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must… — Friedrich Nietzsche
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms,… — John Lennon
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. — Keith Jarrett
It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying… — Edward Goldsmith
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of… — Thomas Berry
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. — John Robbins
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by… — Thomas B. Macaulay
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his… — Robert Neelly Bellah
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. — James Dean Bradfield
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. — Thomas Jefferson
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic… — James Madison
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness… — Josiah Wedgwood
Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us. — Vanna Bonta
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and… — Brother Lawrence
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its… — Northrop Frye

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