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  • Bill Hybels Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Marie Beyon Ray Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
    De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • H. Ross Perot Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • George Bernard Shaw But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Armistead Maupin But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bayard Taylor But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bea Arthur But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • William Shakespeare But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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