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“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...”

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal…

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

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“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

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“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

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I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel…

“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human…

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“am not suggesting that successes in academics, athletics, or vocation somehow stand outside God’s good plan. Learning and play are joys that God himself wove into the very fabric of creation. Although cursed in the fall, work was also part of God’s good design before the fall (Gen. 2:15; 3:17–23). And yet, whenever any activity, however good it may be,…

Timothy Paul Jones

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to…

Henry B. Eyring

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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God's love never fail :)

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Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

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The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Albert Einstein

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A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those…

Marie Avgeropoulos

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As we are coming to the end of the year, I want you to forget about the past, the failure, the negative thoughts or…

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I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

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What would God have me do with my life?

Ezra Taft Benson

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