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  • St. Teresa of Avila O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Andy Rooney Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
    David Lehman
     
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  • Mark Twain October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
    Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) CH. 13
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Matthew Prior Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Abraham Cowley Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Louis Aragon Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bridgette Wilson Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
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  • Maya Angelou Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Henry Clay Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • Anatole France Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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