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  • Stephen King Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
    Source: Different Seasons (1982)
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Socrates Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bill Nye Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Aeschylus Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Wes Smith Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
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  • Bishop Hall Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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  • Lord George Byron Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John H. Aughey Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • Bill Frist September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Alice Walker She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Carl Sagan She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 407)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
    Source: Social Studies (1981)
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Caleb Cushing Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • William Shakespeare Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from other's books.
    Source: Love's Labour's Lost, I, I
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Morris So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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