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A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back. — Natalie
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. — Adam Pascal
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to… — Galileo Galilei
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve. — C. Vivian Stringer
Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all. — Norman Cousins
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban
We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking. — Andrew Greeley
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and… — Albert Einstein
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely… — Billy Sunday
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded… — Henry David Thoreau
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than… — Sun Tzu
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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