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No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time. — Isaac Babel
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. — Brian Aldiss
My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction. — Wolf Blitzer
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on… — Malala Yousafzai
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted… — Denise Levertov
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff… — Wangari Maathai
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered… — John L. DeWitt
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,… — Jeremy Bentham
I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school… — Jack Canfield
We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose — Charles R. Swindoll
Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously… — Mark Buchanan
A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed… — Beth Moore
We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves. — Steven M. Greer
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there… — Edmund Burke
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,… — Robert Smithson
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect… — William Cowper
My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I… — Bernadette Soubirous
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a… — Adolf Hitler
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked… — John Berger

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