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Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and… — Van Jones
Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.... — Rajneesh
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward… — William Butler Yeats
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To… — William Wordsworth
The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. — William Wordsworth
Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. — William Butler Yeats
. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was… — Viktor E. Frankl
While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here. — John Selden
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. — John Lyly
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there… — Edmund Burke
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity. — Washington Irving
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. — Thomas Starr King
Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the… — Eva Cassidy
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work… — Edward McKendree Bounds
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on… — Frederick William Robertson
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that… — Will Durant
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ'… — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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