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  • Charles Caleb Colton Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eric Butterworth Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Bernie Sanders Our job is to do two things - to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Our King is accused of treachery; it is said of him that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • E. M. Forster Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Martin Luther Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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  • Carl Sagan Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 54 min 25 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Levitt Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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