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  • Billy Graham Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Billy Graham Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • John Selden To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Igor Stravinsky Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Og Mandino Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Lord Mansfield True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
    Lord Mansfield
    British barrister, politician and judge (1705 - 1793)
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  • James Baldwin True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Russell Lowell Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aldous Huxley Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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