"Our life is but a grain of sand……" — Sergei Dovlatov

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• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of… — Lord Acton
• Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
• To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms… — William Blake
• If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections,… — William Jennings Bryan
• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frédéric Amiel
• Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings… — F. F. Bruce
• There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal… — Michel de Montaigne
• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe… — Stephen King
• But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
• We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born… — Robert R. McCammon
• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no… — Henri Poincare

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