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How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just… — Marcus Aurelius
It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the… — Caroline Myss
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead… — Alan Watts
We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a… — Valery Giscard d'Estaing
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary… — Star Parker
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom. — Sakyong Mipham
I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry… — Roger Federer
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on… — Erich Hartmann
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the… — Bill Brandt
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think… — Jack Handey
If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some… — Jack Handey
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him… — Jack Handey
I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all… — Stefanie Schneider
If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable. — Stefanie Schneider
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and… — Susan Sontag
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the… — Jerry I. Porras
On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great… — Unknown Author
Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus… — Rick Warren
My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we… — N. T. Wright
It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re… — Bill Hybels
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high… — Elton Gallegly
To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons. — Bill Hicks
I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself… — Margaret Thatcher

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