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In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever…
— James E. Faust
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to…
— Ben Jonson
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if…
— Ronald Reagan
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
— Martin Van Buren
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Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people…
— Rajneesh
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
— Karen Horney
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission…
— Louise Erdrich
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All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow…
— Tony Robbins
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The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the…
— Franz Cizek
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto…
— Parker J. Palmer
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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
— Saint Augustine
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general…
— Emile Durkheim
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
— Peter Høeg
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such…
— Edward Hoagland
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The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building…
— Joy Harjo
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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged…
— Ken Robinson
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I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that…
— William J. Clinton
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All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water…
— Shailene Woodley
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