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Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its… — Jonny Greenwood
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of… — Helen Keller
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure… — H. L. Mencken
What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given,… — John C. Malone
Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents… — Edward Bernays
The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back… — Heber J. Grant
We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies… — William James
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own… — Barbara Feldon
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you… — Philip O Ceallaigh
Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others… — Paulo Coelho
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all… — Thomas Berry
I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that… — Pablo Picasso
In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. — David Baldacci
People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit… — Steven Pinker
During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive… — John Coltrane
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to… — Walter Pater

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