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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Richard Dawkins A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Winston Churchill An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Fuller Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Rita Mae Brown As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Elias Canetti As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ovid Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Beggar: One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Rupert Brooke But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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