A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Author: Charles W. Pickering

Author: Charles W. Pickering

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It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, yourbeard’s stupid.”“Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery sa

Author: Derek Landy
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God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.

Author: Karina Halle
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You are incorrigible.” “I know.” She sighed happily. “All the shit we’ve been through—all the shit I

Author: Chloe Neill
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Fail often and fail cheap.

Author: Paul Sloane
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and

Author: James Joyce
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Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default

Author: Criss Jami
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Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, b

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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To improve a country, educate the citizens.

Author: Debasish Mridha M.D.
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Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it make

Author: James Sallis
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Life is far too short for any silly nonsense.

Author: Steven Redhead
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People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. The

Author: Henry Cloud
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Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion

Author: Priyanka Deshmukh
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Ah. That is the price of love, I'm afraid—the pain one suffers from its loss. I'm not convinced it's

Author: Lisa Kleypas
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When a man takes care of what’s his it’s not charity.

Author: Jordan Silver
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Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; t

Author: José Rizal
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I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest

Author: Martha Graham
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This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices an

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living

Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately

Author: Wallace Stegner
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never d

Author: Pat Summitt
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There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the fl

Author: Max Barry
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery t

Author: Kobe Bryant
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Did he ever--try?'Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.'What's that mean?'Means he tried.'Of course. Th

Author: Jonathan Lethem
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The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Author: Nenia Campbell
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The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower,

Author: Royall Tyler
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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

Author: Katherine Boo
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And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it

Author: Steven R. Boyett
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Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possib

Author: Brandon Cella
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While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeles

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child b

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful

Author: Donna Cooner
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Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills.

Author: Vikrmn
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I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone

Author: Katie Kacvinsky
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

Author: Usher
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Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we

Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Author: Baltasar Gracian
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No man can escape the shadow of his own character." Let us hope we are casting the right kind of sha

Author: Abha Maryada Banerjee
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If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There

Author: Richard Rohr
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In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto

Author: Albert Einstein
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..in any situation we may ever find ourselves, nomatter how much we feel we are at the mercy of vast

Author: Richard N. Bolles
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about

Author: Arthur Ashe
Quote #37752

Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.

Author: Haruki Murakami
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When I made you my Everything, you gave me nothing. If I made you my Nothing would you want to give

Author: Kate McGahan
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Afterall a concerned sincere heart & clear conscience is what matters & nothing else...

Author: Aanu
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Did your parents care that he was white?""They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet

Author: Nicola Yoon
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco

Author: George Harrison
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It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.

Author: Jewel E. Ann
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Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang

Author: Mindy Kaling
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You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could hav

Author: Emily Carr
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Life is beautiful dream.

Author: Unknown
Quote #84821

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Author: Jenny Holzer
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int

Author: Isaac Asimov
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Author: Philip Johnson
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People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people

Author: Avigdor Lieberman
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It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into some

Author: Siri Hustvedt
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If we read the Holy Scripture, we shall grow in our knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Saviour. And be f

Author: Unknown
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The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but

Author: Zhuangzi
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Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatil

Author: Saad Salman
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Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrou

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.

Author: Kathryn Perez
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place

Author: Natasha Lyonne
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken withou

Author: Sam Harris
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You can only accomplish the impossible when the God of the possible is involved".~R. Alan Woods [201

Author: R. Alan Woods
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness

Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I let giving fill me with joy.

Author: Amy Leigh Mercree
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Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smil

Author: Kendal Rob
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There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Author: Suzy Menkes
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Imagination is bigger than knowledge. Yet, facts are often bigger than imagination. We didn't imagin

Author: Torin Sarasas
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Whoever wishes to be free, shall seek the faith of liberty.

Author: Unknown
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Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly dif

Author: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woo

Author: John Lee Hooker
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Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.

Author: Balroop Singh
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The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less

Author: Robyn Davidson
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He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the servic

Author: R. Briffault
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How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

Author: Eilis O'Neal
Quote #9574

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Author: Martin Heidegger
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that a

Author: Taylor Swift
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Life is for participating, not for spectating.

Author: Kathrine Switzer
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Author: Shirley Temple
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Its not about what we take with us when we die,Its about what we leave behind.

Author: Sandesh Hukpachongbang
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We must have a virile, dynamic, aggressive Christian who lives Christ seven days a week, who is read

Author: Billy Graham
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One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

Author: Anthony Powell
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If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 ti

Author: Scott Kelly
Quote #35970

Brilliant boom of Spring is nothing if not for the timely death of Autumn~

Author: Tanya Gambhir
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The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in

Author: Renata Adler
Quote #44729

Let your whisper shake the ground

Author: Lisa Farrell
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Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique c

Author: Joseph J. Ellis
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I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense

Author: Kate Forsyth
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The poet I saw once...but whose words have long beenin my mind, windows of invincible candles...

Author: Nathalie Handal
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In the end, as at the beginning, the divine turns out to be most interested in the unique life of th

Author: Michael Meade
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We’re probably leaving soon,” Rider said. “Might catch a movie.”Jayden leaned against the wall as he

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder fr

Author: Robert Burns
Quote #375040

Judge me not for who I am but what I do.

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
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Achieving success is like hitting a moving target. Both require accuracy, the ability to counteract

Author: Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
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I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Author: Richard Wurmbrand
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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in

Author: George Orwell