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I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions… — Ravi Zacharias
This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else… — Cecelia Ahern
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The… — Ellen G. White
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and… — Samuel Johnson
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like… — Louisa May Alcott
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. — William Wordsworth
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that… — Sigmund Freud
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in… — Sri Aurobindo
Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work." — T. Harv Eker
The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from… — Harry Browne
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:… — Frederic Bastiat
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to… — Thomas Paine

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