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Quotes 5401 till 5420 of 8429.

• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

  Stephen King
  American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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• The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

  Gay Hendricks
   
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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  Jean Paul Getty
  American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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• The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
  

  Bill Gates
  American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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• The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
  

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren
  American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  Napoleon Hill
  American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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• The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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• The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

  Brene Brown
  American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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• The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
  

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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• The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
  

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

  Bill Bruford
  English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

  Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank
  Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• vulnerability
• commonplace
• reflections
• rheumatism
• unpleasant
• marriages

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