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  • Aldous Huxley The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Akhenaton The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bill Hybels The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Paul The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
    Billy Paul
     
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aaron Hill The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • John F. Kennedy The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Douglas Everett The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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  • Anita Roddick The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bhagat Singh The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bayard Taylor The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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