A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

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Author: E. O. Wilson

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It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should ea

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You are the Energizer Bunny for badasses. -Ash

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A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

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The Glass has Shattered but the Cross Remains

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Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Ev

Author: Amy Poehler
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The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Author: Harlan Ellison
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Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.

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Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsi

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‪#‎Legacy‬Its all by birth;we hardly can change,individual born with own limits & abilities.-13.04.2

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When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and

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The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so

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Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most any

Author: Peter Benchley
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Dance with the Devil

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By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.

Author: India Arie
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Joy sometimes take baby steps

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It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees

Author: William Faulkner
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It's through the test, that we find our true strength.

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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting

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You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.

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Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse o

Author: Leo the Great
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You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are heari

Author: Julia Heywood
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of tur

Author: Sai Baba
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I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to."

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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that f

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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact

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Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without de

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Enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

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I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

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I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot -

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The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to

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There is no symbolism to these fish, as Hemingway wrote. A cabezon is just a cabezon; a garibaldi, a

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The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus

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I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one

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I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or

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Life is INCONCLUSIVE but its about an everlasting FUTURE

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Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin

Author: John Piper
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The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday

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His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the af

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I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change the

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from withi

Author: Sandra Cisneros
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Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed th

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
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My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create beli

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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space b

Author: Donna Tartt
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Do not despise the water droplets that you receive, soon it will be a river.

Author: Bruce Mbanzabugabo
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Begin a new life today without any fear! Let's go over it together.

Author: Nazim Ambalath
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Of all the roles she’d played – daughter, student, employee, sister and wife – wife was the smallest

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Some days my thoughts refuse to silence themselves, and I feel like I'm walking around in darkness r

Author: Terry a O'Neal
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We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is… BUT GOD IS!

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An effective life is a life of purpose

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.

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You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

Author: Gene Siskel
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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor

Author: Billy Graham
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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do

Author: Epictetus
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the hu

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Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or di

Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

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Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z.

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Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.

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Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

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There’s some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want

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The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Author: John Milton
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If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortal

Author: Melissa Marr
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Having extreme physical beauty presented a problem similar to being rich: it was difficult to know i

Author: Greg Mongrain
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It's clever, but is it art?

Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Three great actions: To do what is right, To love mercy, and To walk humbly with Yahweh.

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He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its co

Author: Simon Van Booy
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't

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Life's an experience on its own”.

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According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasi

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Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the f

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It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

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I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make

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The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in

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Follow your intuition not other people's words

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We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiab

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Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each ot

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My eyes moved over his face. His chiseled jaw and high cheekbones twisted in agony. Even writhing he

Author: Andrea Cremer
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I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.""Why not? Because I'm a woman?""No, b

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We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

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I couldn't pick just one.The moment I'd touched the sugar packet, a thousand thoughts cascaded throu

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Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it’s still a little grimy.

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In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought

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I am happy and content because I think I am.

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There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstanc

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The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existenc

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Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness

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The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inacti

Author: Iimani David
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God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it’s this, m

Author: Sophie Page
Quote #363230

I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it

Author: Linda Barry
Quote #346801

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

Author: Unknown
Quote #244219

I'm rarely rude except accidentally, and that doesn't really count...

Author: Laura L. Sullivan
Quote #286232

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent

Author: George Eliot
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I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's

Author: Andrew Motion
Quote #119641

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

Author: Pete Wentz
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If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attracti

Author: Unknown
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Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them

Author: Kate Elliott