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  • Jacques BéNigne Bossuet The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
    Jacques BéNigne Bossuet
    French bishop and writer (1627 - 1704)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Anthony Trollope The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Agatha Christie The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Nelson Algren The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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  • Charles M. Schwab The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
    Speech of 24 june 1877
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Al Gore The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ben Foster The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The holiest of all holidays are those
    Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
    The secret anniversaries of the heart,
    Holidays
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • C. L. R. James The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Marquis de Sade The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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