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This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the… — Steve Perry
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been… — Dag Hammarskjold
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is… — Henri Nouwen
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God… — Ravi Zacharias
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the… — John Burroughs
aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the… — A. P. Herbert
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. — Antonio Porchia
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was… — John D. Rockefeller
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire… — Ludwig von Mises
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable… — Ayn Rand
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of… — John Maynard Keynes
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors… — Ayn Rand
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth. — Anthony de Mello
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.… — Anthony de Mello
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to… — Vernon Howard
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take. — Byron Katie
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a… — Daniel Goleman
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as… — Francis Crick
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.… — Louis Agassiz
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey

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