In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Author: Henry David Thoreau

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I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

Author: Sydney Pollack
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We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness,

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We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not l

Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
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It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Author: Noam Chomsky
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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to m

Author: Maya Angelou
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One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of

Author: Phillip E. Johnson
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A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their fina

Author: Ruben Hinojosa
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Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Author: Sam Harris
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When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you man

Author: Steven Redhead
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For the first time in my life, I'm doubting my faith, and it terrifies me.For the first time, I want

Author: Alice Broadway
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The snooze button is useless if you love life enough to get up on time.

Author: Virginia Phillips
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I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted m

Author: Jennifer Garner
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A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

Author: P.L. Travers
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Author: William Shakespeare
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One’s life is short, but the life of the spirit is long.

Author: Sook Nyul Choi
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Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
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Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

Author: Gary Kemp
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Society is built upon trust.

Author: Robert South
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All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

Author: George R.R. Martin
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Author: P.C. Cast
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Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked

Author: A.H. Septimius
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Three lights should be fine." - Zachary"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon

Author: Steve Alten
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Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.

Author: Ronda Rousey
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

Author: Sally Hawkins
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Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love yo

Author: W.B. Yeats
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Today’s businesses can’t just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and ou

Author: Paul M. Rand
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Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

Author: John Geddes
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It’s said that the Buddha’s enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same

Author: Matthieu Ricard
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To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house

Author: Margaret Mitchell
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Whatever is what you are creating is what creates you.

Author: Ana Ortega
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It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies

Author: Jacqueline Carey
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Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a

Author: Pearl Cleage
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All blood runs red.

Author: Unknown
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It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some pro

Author: Michael Che
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The kingdom is not represented by an expression of religious traditions

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of

Author: Christopher Moore
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I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown al

Author: Sebastian Vettel
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I am convinced it is, then our churches are filled with believers who are hurting, to one degree or

Author: Glenn Pemberton
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...I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think tha

Author: Kira Salak
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My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in givin

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Great is the Lord’s provisions. Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat.

Author: Unknown
Quote #125218

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

Author: David Gaider
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa

Author: Carl von Clausewitz
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Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operatio

Author: Keith Ellison
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Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed

Author: Nick Cave
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Don't worry, I plan on living a long time.""Why are you making a bucket list, then?""Because if you

Author: Gayle Forman
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If you can hear the bell for the next round, then you are still in the fight! Get off your stool and

Author: Paul Guildea
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I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positi

Author: Linus Torvalds
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We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safet

Author: Ellen Ochoa
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgive

Author: H. Jackson Brown
Quote #200012

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

Author: S.A. Tawks
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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all

Author: Marlo Thomas
Quote #378264

You can’t feel lonely if there’s no one else around.-Yamaguchi Kenji (Yamaken)

Author: Robico
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There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that

Author: Gloria Estefan
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When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware t

Author: Joel A. Barker
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I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

Author: David Letterman
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In suffering, we resurrect our souls.

Author: Unknown
Quote #373520

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Author: Isuna Hasekura
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The good thing about problems is that it seems like there's only one way to get into them, but there

Author: Lisa Van Allen
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Most of you will marry and have children. They will become the source of your greatest pride and hap

Author: Gordon B. Hinckley
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Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are

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The return of the rain, beating out time on London's rooftops and pavements. Early morning Zombies s

Author: Stephen J. Day
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I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn’t take no

Author: Damon John
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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions

Author: Bebe Rexha
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The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.

Author: Tiffany Madison
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Knowledge makes you strong,understanding makes you formidable,wisdom makes you powerful,and love mak

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We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our o

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The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you

Author: Larry Winget
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really p

Author: J. Tillman
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Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a p

Author: Marian Deegan
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A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life

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There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an indiv

Author: Angela Merkel
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I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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So many things are lost in the dark. A slight misstep and we lose our footing. A quick hand in a poc

Author: Pat Henshaw
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Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

Author: Mary Street
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It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need

Author: Nick Hornby
Quote #418933

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Author: La Rochefoucauld
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inver

Author: Lev Grossman
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Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooki

Author: Christopher Hitchens
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A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?

Author: Jackie Blue
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It's very hard for me to be a good girlfriend to him, when you're always interfering... It must be e

Author: Stylo Fantome
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Perhaps all pleasure in only relief

Author: William S. Burroughs
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I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young.

Author: Caroline Yawn
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Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air qu

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She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, se

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Life is too short Be with someone who takes your breath away

Author: Mimi Novic
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No human can be preceptor. Only God can be the preceptor. God is one. He is within this human body,

Author: Unknown
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Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f

Author: Dean Koontz
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I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story

Author: Scott Bakula
Quote #50201

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Author: C.S. Lewis
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h

Author: Orison Swett Marden
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Author: Unknown
Quote #164187

Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's pow

Author: bell hooks
Quote #319043

Mom's eyes held yours for a moment. 'I don't like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to.

Author: Kyung-Sook Shin
Quote #84571

People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves.

Author: Eliza Green