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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and…
— Samuel Smiles
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`Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not sing one note…
— Robert Fuller Murray
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From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen.
— Wayne Dyer
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I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
— Johann Georg Hamann
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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
— Jeremy Bentham
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We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex…
— Linus Pauling
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding…
— Alan Greenspan
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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that…
— Eleanora Duse
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If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better…
— G. Gordon Liddy
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The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.
— Bill Hicks
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.
— Margaret Thatcher
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There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for…
— Vidkun Quisling
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
— Vernor Vinge
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The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer…
— Edward R. Murrow
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,…
— Thomas Ligotti
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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty…
— Thomas Ligotti
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A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by…
— Doreen Virtue
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If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its…
— Esther Hicks
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When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be…
— Esther Hicks
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