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A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but… — Orison Swett Marden
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated… — Sam Shoemaker
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the… — Benjamin Franklin
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth,… — Ludwig Feuerbach
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse… — Elbert Hubbard
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking… — Simone de Beauvoir
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is… — Robert Jarvik
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. — Blaise Pascal
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal
Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for… — Ernest Hemingway
With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience… — Harrison Ford
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way… — George Matthew Adams
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future.… — Mary McCarthy
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time.… — Stephen Hawking
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer… — James Gleick
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -… — Christopher McDougall
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.… — Julian Barnes
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have… — Patricia Briggs
I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting… — Eddie Van Halen
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which… — Douglas Coupland
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? — Van Wyck Brooks
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in… — Jenny Lawson

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