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Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride…
— Anthony of Padua
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront…
— Ajahn Brahm
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
— Charles Dickens
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind…
— C.S. Lewis
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If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability…
— Jim Al-Khalili
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The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice
— Unknown Author
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
— Millicent Fenwick
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Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most…
— Unknown Author
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
— Frederic Goudy
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Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it…
— Stanley Morison
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Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of…
— Kenny Smith
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As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs,…
— Philip Kapleau
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The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
— Yogi Berra
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
— Helen Keller
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In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation…
— Jimmy Carter
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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
— Abraham Maslow
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it…
— John Lennox
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A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet…
— Matthew Henry
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