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  • Albert Einstein A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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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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  • Albert Schweitzer Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • James Allen Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Aga Khan III Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Fuller He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Helen Keller My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Augustus Hare Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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