Possible Quotes
8111 quotes by 4730 authors
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Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible…
— Max Ehrmann
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When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his…
— Leon Bourgeois
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This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
— John Quincy Adams
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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
— Mark Twain
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[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I…
— Gouverneur Morris
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Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
— Paulo Coelho
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
— William Faulkner
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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few…
— Derrick Bell
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Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
— Gouverneur Morris
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A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
— Unknown Author
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On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in…
— James Madison
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Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free,…
— Samuel Adams
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[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .
— Alexander Hamilton
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As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The law of attraction says there are no limits and anything is possible. Your imagination has no limits, and anything is possible for you to…
— Rhonda Byrne
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an…
— Jean Genet
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