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  • Francis Thompson For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Samuel Butler For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Kahlil Gibran For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Cassiodorus For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
    Source: Variae, Bk. 2, no. 40; p. 38.
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Herman Melville For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Billy Joel For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Simone Weil For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Audre Lorde For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bettie Page For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Billy Porter For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Butch Otter For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
    Butch Otter
     
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  • Bill Flores For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Carl Lewis For years, people have looked at Beamon's record as unattainable. I don't accept that. I believe the Lord has given me a talent. I know the record is inside me and I will attain it.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Edgar Cayce For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
    Edgar Cayce
    American clairvoyant (1877 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin Tucker For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Solomon For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
    Solomon
     
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  • Arthur Machen For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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