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The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him,… — Michael Chabon
And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt… — Mark Levin
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others… — Ernest Becker
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales… — Dave Barry
Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women,… — Xinran
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism,… — Anna Quindlen
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. — Fulton J. Sheen
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and… — Carl Jung
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen… — E. O. Wilson
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved;… — Thomas Mann
We donâ€™t like to think of ourselves as preyâ€”it is a lessening thoughtâ€”but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget… — Gary Paulsen
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I… — Rene Descartes
After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as… — Ysabeau S. Wilce
Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in… — Greg Graffin
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? Itâ€™s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" â€œblue — Gayle Forman

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