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• The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is… — Ilya Ehrenburg
• The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them… — Wilhelm Wundt
• Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their… — Kenny Smith
• What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is… — Epictetus
• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,… — Epictetus
• Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the… — Robert Anderson
• There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China,… — Alan Cranston
• The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all… — J. G. Holland
• There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people… — Leonard Cohen
• The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order… — Eudora Welty
• This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after,… — R. Scott Bakker

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