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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for…
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There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it…
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Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is…
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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings…
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History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the…
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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Dont bring a candlelight vigil to a gunfight
— David Burge
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true…
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I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I…
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To look back is to relax one's vigil.
— Bette Davis
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