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One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest… — S. J. Perelman
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait… — Benjamin Franklin
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need. — Norman Cousins
The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us? — David O. McKay
In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the… — Brian Andreas
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ.… — Saint Boniface
Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all… — Bruce R. McConkie
With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails… — Octavio Paz
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a… — Ramakrishna
Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance… — Paul Washer
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start.… — Eugene H. Peterson
I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans… — Janet Yellen
Traditional ads placed into digital just shout at the consumer — Michael Reeves
Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the… — Steven Morrissey
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework… — Paul Ricoeur
Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could… — Roger Caras
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To… — Henry David Thoreau
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in… — Steig Larsson

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