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Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball. — Bobby Jones
Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into… — Bobby Jones
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried… — Dale Carnegie
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends… — Marcus Aurelius
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life… — Moby
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences. — John Dewey
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon… — Helen Keller
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms,… — Djuna Barnes
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. — Brian Tracy
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. — Rabindranath Tagore
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very… — John J. Pershing
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of… — John Vianney
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us,… — Philip Neri

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