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Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they… — Elizabeth Debold
Hope is the expectation of fulfillment that is anchored in God's promise to meet my need. Hope is not based on my emotional or mental… — Marilyn Meberg
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our… — William Crookes
The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes. — Walter Lippmann
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him. — Leonardo da Vinci
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution,… — George Washington
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot… — Jim Ryun
I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the… — Leon Battista Alberti
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He… — Maurice Denis
I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is… — Anita Hill
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down… — Cynthia McKinney
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. — Robert Boyle
Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our… — Kimberly Hahn
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt

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