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  • W. H. Auden ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Victor Hugo A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Peter Brook 'Reality' is a word with many meanings.
    Peter Brook
    British theater producer and director (1925 - 2022)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    Source: The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Horace A word once uttered can never be recalled.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Aaron Sorkin Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Conscience is but a word that cowards use.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ray Kroc Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Lewis Carroll When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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