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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Simone Signoret Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
    Simone Signoret
    French actress (ps. of Simone Kaminker) (1921 - 1985)
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  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Paine Character is much easier kept than recovered.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Gloria Steinem Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Bill Hicks Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carolyn Coats Children have more need of models than of critics
    Carolyn Coats
    American educator and author (1939 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Joubert Children need models rather than critics.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Rush Christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. And a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • A. W. Tozer Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • B. C. Forbes Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Lou Holtz Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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