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To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It… — Prentice Mulford
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will… — Martin Feldstein
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The… — Mahatma Gandhi
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. — Frederick William Faber
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female,… — Nikolai Berdyaev
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be… — E. M. Forster
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources. — B.F. Skinner
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to… — Isaac D'Israeli
If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And… — Ed Kashi
I need to have something to source my energy to and something to remove me from my own weird brain. — Andy Biersack
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy. — Bill Kraus
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief… — Cynthia Ozick
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our… — Joshua Foer
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that… — Baruch Spinoza
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the… — Sri Aurobindo
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that… — Lincoln Steffens
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. — Robert Breault

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