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  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • William Shakespeare Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • P. D. James God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Antonio Porchia God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Albert Camus God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • C. S. Lewis God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Gods always behave like the people who make them.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Going home must be like going to render an account.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Hannah More Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Francis Bacon Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Lord Jeffrey Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
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