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The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our… — Warren W. Wiersbe
Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone… — Marianne Williamson
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.… — Frederick Douglass
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either… — H. L. Mencken
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them. — Fausto Cercignani
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the… — George MacDonald
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that… — Albert Einstein
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
One's thoughts turn towards Hope. — Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak. — Clarence Day
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers… — Alexander Pope
Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow. — Henry David Thoreau
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement… — Bryan Adams
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things. — Napoleon Hill
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even… — Albert Ellis
Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could… — Hannah Whitall Smith

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