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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
— Maya Angelou
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races,…
— Maya Angelou
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that…
— Sharron Angle
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Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.
— Grenville Kleiser
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us,…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform…
— Susan B. Anthony
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
— Arthur W. Pink
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By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress…
— Lloyd D. Newell
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Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy,…
— Ardeth Kapp
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In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows…
— Teresa of Avila
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are…
— William J. Clinton
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding…
— John F. Kennedy
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
— Aldo Leopold
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape…
— N. Scott Momaday
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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and…
— Nhat Hanh
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart…
— Immanuel Kant
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman…
— David O. McKay
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