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7676 Given quotes by 4565 unique authors
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We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons…
— Justin Martyr
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The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
— Charlie Watts
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
— Charles Farrar Browne
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She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But…
— Terry Pratchett
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Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new…
— Peggy Noonan
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on…
— Peter Singer
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All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us,…
— Heinrich Himmler
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
— George Orwell
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If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted.…
— Anne Truitt
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Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
— Ivan Bunin
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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important…
— John Harbaugh
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If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?
— Unknown Author
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded…
— Robert Graves
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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
— William Shakespeare
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I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that…
— Ewan McGregor
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As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with…
— Claudia Schiffer
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It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.
— Dorothy Gilman
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We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going…
— Derek Tangye
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There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for…
— Hillary Clinton
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I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying…
— Kenneth Lay
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