All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

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And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you

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He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It

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We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations.

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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone fore

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Let us decorate the world with the flowers of peace, love, and laughter.

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I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

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Failure is often our best teacher not the success.

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From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's

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-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life.

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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Real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be

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Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

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We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

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If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up f

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Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.

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What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

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You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

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My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every

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Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life

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Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.

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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

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You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

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Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.

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We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

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Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

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In any situation, there is hope. Don’t give! Be strong!

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The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.

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The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dange

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Too bad he was officially the enemy.

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If we reward our children for doing the right things, or discipline for intentionally doing the wron

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A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside you

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We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is j

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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to

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I need to let him go.

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The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

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We live for books.

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Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing syst

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The importance of knowing for certain that you have been saved cannot be understated. We do not know

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Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one s

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A word drops into the mistlike a child's ball into high grasswhere it remains seductivelyflashing an

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Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause

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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up

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Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phanta

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Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Lik

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

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Doubt, fear and helplessness will always try to flourish when we are in a holding pattern for too lo

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Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.

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There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

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Real is the new beautiful

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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Common aim is stronger than blood.

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We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We a

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I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. I

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Take a Tree Pose in your life.

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James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out

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An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings

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It must feel good to have someone trying so hard to keep you in any circumstances. I wish I have one

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A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

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Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

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Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter

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A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.

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Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

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Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or h

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Don't give a gift with the expectation to get,but if you have a gift, always try to give.

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In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of h

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Be inspired by possibilities and never be discouraged by obstacles

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