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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars,… — Andrew Sean Greer
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. — George R. R. Martin
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to… — Will Self
Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what… — Richard Bach
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not… — Karl Kraus
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves — Confucius
Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man… — John Steinbeck
To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the… — Francis Schaeffer
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take… — Alexandre Dumas
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins. — Jose Saramago
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take… — Alberto Manguel
For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made… — Haruki Murakami
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We… — Haruki Murakami
Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a… — Michelle Richmond
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are… — Libba Bray
When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates… — James Redfield
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he… — Haruki Murakami
I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take… — Amy Sedaris
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.… — Agnes de Mille
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. — Huston Smith
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung

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