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  • Alexander Pope Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • John F. Kennedy Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bill Hybels Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Thomas E. Dewey Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.
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  • Ben Zobrist Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Sir John Suckling Out upon it, I have lov'd three whole days together, and am like to love three more if it proves fair weather.
    Sir John Suckling
    English poet (1609 - 1642)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Brad Feld Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bonnie Hunt Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Brandon Sanderson Overthrowing the Final Empire seems like a good start. Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
    Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) Kelsier, Ch. 10
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Laurence Sterne Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • George Tooker Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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