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To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are in love, all… — Rajneesh
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human… — Ralph Ellison
Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and search for a more effective… — Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious… — Edward Gibbon
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken
Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon… — George W. Bush
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with… — Karl Pearson
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which… — John Calvin
The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell… — Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience. — Hasan of Basra
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety - our own security - depends upon our willingness to do what… — Barack Obama
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon… — William Ralph Inge
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to… — Winston Churchill
Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it. — Robert Adams
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave… — George Monbiot
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. — Hannah Arendt
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not… — John Keats
How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal… — Piero Ferrucci

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