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- There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.
- We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that…
- I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
- Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
- Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
- What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of…
- If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
- Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
- ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -…
- When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept…
- To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public…
- All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since…
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
- The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere…
- I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if…
- Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
- I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps…
- It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
- Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
- It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in…
- Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have…
- There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
- It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is…
- The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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