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''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
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... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real reason.
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
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