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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our strength grows out of our weakness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Alex Noble Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
    Alex Noble
    Australian athlete and motivational speaker
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  • Paul E. Little Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Earl Wilson Somebody figured it out - we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • St. John of the Cross Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Bill Watterson Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
    Original: Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Art Buchwald The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Gustave Flaubert The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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