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Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea. — Irving Caesar
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. — William James
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can;… — William Feather
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,… — William Butler Yeats
That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon… — Sterling W Sill
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our… — E. O. Wilson
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy… — Richard Baxter
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;… — William Butler Yeats
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so… — Plato
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse… — James Hansen
I have always maintained that a man can be as good or bad depending upon his life-partner. — Unknown Author
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold… — Plato
Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm,… — George Berkeley
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships,… — Emile Durkheim
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you… — Odetta
We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes… — Ossie Davis
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty… — William Lloyd Garrison
I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask… — Dwight L. Moody
If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on… — Dwight L. Moody
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. — Elbert Hubbard
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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