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  • Thomas More For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • J. B. Priestley I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Woody Allen More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Ivern Ball Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Juvenal Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • George Orwell No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Hybels Sensing the carelessness and one-sidedness of our prayers, we start to feel guilty about praying. Guilt leads to faint-heartedness and that in turn leads to prayerlessness.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Joan Didion The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Amelia Earhart The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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