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To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to… — Walt Disney
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our… — Brigham Young
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could… — Benjamin Franklin
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead. — Dwight Yoakam
Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is. — Bill Hicks
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore… — Abraham Lincoln
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth. — David Fontana
Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe. — Holly Smale
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our… — Catherine Crowe
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men… — Frances Wright
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal… — Jean de la Bruyere
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they… — Jean de la Bruyere
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life… — C.S. Lewis
We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and… — William Hazlitt
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the… — William Hazlitt
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted… — Lady Gregory
When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away. — Bill Cosby
I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party. — Andrew Cuomo

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