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Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. — Henry Beston
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live… — Noam Chomsky
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the… — George W. Bush
I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one of the beautiful… — George W. Bush
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. — Louis Kronenberger
When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All… — Ugo Betti
I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for… — Jonas Salk
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things… — Leonardo da Vinci
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they… — Heraclitus
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. — Thomas Browne
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on… — Elbert Hubbard
Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. — Gelett Burgess
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe,… — Tertullian
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which… — George Washington

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