Quotes 141 till 160 of 684.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
― St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Source: Speech Berlin, 12 June 1997 -
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
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Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
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God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
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Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
― Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Source: Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1990) 124 -
Half-way through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again.... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid...
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
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