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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or…
— Douglas Bader
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Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound…
— Robert Breault
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Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me…
— Vivien Leigh
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He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering…
— Walter Russell
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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle…
— Walter Russell
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Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater…
— Steve Pavlina
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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but…
— Albert Einstein
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably…
— James Boswell
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
— Victor J. Stenger
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There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know…
— Rajneesh
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We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin,…
— Barack Obama
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing…
— William Safire
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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that…
— Alice Miller
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Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching…
— Rajneesh
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When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow…
— Simon Conway Morris
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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a…
— Mother Teresa
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