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One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing…
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At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
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A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he…
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a…
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it…
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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.…
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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state…
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My body should only be for my husband and it's just a sacred thing,
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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country…
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There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a…
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Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
— William Lyon Phelps
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Work to me is a sacred thing.
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I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.
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People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took…
— Ellen Wittlinger
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Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean,…
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