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If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given. — Stephenie Meyer
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone… — Gregory Maguire
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And… — Ray Bradbury
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up… — Jose Saramago
Iâ€™m telling you right now I could make him pop an aneurysm and no one would know. (Nero) Doesnâ€™t that kind of murder bother you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory… — Rollo May
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others… — Simone de Beauvoir
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll… — Frederick Buechner
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. — Carl Jung
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We… — Voltaire
There are hearts to gladden... kind words to say... gifts to be given... deeds to be done. — Thomas S. Monson
You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden… — Saint Augustine
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy. — Samuel Beckett
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living… — Rabindranath Tagore
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is… — Rabindranath Tagore
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was… — Sarah Rees Brennan

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