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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. — Bertrand Russell
EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our… — Ambrose Bierce
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way… — Malcolm X
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of… — Thomas Jefferson
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone… — George Washington
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. — Bruce Willis
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress… — Samuel Johnson
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect,… — Alexander Smith
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should… — Margaret Chase Smith
"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in… — George W. Bush
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on… — Michel de Montaigne
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from… — John O'Donohue
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow… — Emile M. Cioran
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the… — Julia Cameron
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire… — Mahatma Gandhi
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness… — Ella Maillart
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's. — Robert Breault
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan… — Colin Powell
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,… — Jack Kornfield
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. — Charlotte Bronte

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