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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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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.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
Path, motive, guide, original and end.Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27 -
Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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.
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
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Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
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God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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Good digestion waits an appetite, and health an both.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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