America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

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Author: William Blum

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You're just jealous," I said."You can believe what you want," Aaron said. "But somebody's stealing f

Author: Polly Shulman
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Love! In this world of sorrow, you're my source of joy.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to rea

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Love has many names including compassion, caring, concern,friendship, kindness,goodwill, altruism an

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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unre

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We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of m

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One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in

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Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hop

Author: Joseph Heller
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Author: Samuel Johnson
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has fait

Author: Denis Diderot
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Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more th

Author: Henry Cloud
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In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark fea

Author: Erik Pevernagie
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The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
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But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing i

Author: C.S. Lewis
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It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
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And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compl

Author: Brandon Sanderson
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Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.

Author: Susan McIntire
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It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit.

Author: Unknown
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I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Author: Armistead Maupin
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Dilute your arrogance with a smile.

Author: Sukant Ratnakar
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Some people were born to the shape they would occupy all their lives.("Wait")

Author: Conrad Williams
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I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this so

Author: Russell Simmons
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.

Author: Daniel Webster
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Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Author: Laurence Olivier
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¿Por qué poner tanto empeño en que yo le perdonara? ¿Realmente le gustaba tanto? Es decir, ¿yo era s

Author: Isa Quintin
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be

Author: Sherwood Anderson
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There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Author: Seneca
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At the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

Author: Susan Wiggs
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Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Marshawn Lynch" Not really shy. Still extremely embarrassed

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The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Author: Socrates
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Every moment of contact between us seems important—every glance, every touch, every word. I don’t un

Author: Caroline George
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Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its w

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You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

Author: Heather Graham
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My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I reme

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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My sister is there with, probably, the most dangerous people on this city! You have a little sister?

Author: Rea Lidde
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You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Do not exchange the 24 hours for money. Give some time for your own accomplishments.

Author: Unknown
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No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Author: Jonathan Swift
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The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC they were effectively a press s

Author: Marvin Ammori
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One time Bonaventure heard the graphite of a pencil rasp across a piece of paper and leave a slight

Author: Rita Leganski
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And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow,

Author: Robert C. Merton
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There are two ways of opening the eyes of people. The first is by way of preaching the Word of God a

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

Author: E.E. Cummings
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And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his t

Author: Cornelia Funke
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Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to

Author: Susan Forward
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The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.

Author: Josephine Angelini
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For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it bette

Author: Jodi Picoult
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Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth

Author: Frank A. Oski
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For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world

Author: Sri Aurobindo
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GOD made you a masterpiece, stop treating yourself like a shattered piece.

Author: TemitOpe Ibrahim
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It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is sup

Author: Mitch Albom
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Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been f

Author: Nick Hornby
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as woul

Author: Kevin DeYoung
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Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome.

Author: Unknown
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I carry fairy dust, pack dry herb and drive a broom. If you don't get that you won't get me, so long

Author: DC Allen
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If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with d

Author: Francis Bacon
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When thieves fall out honest men come by their own.

Author: Unknown
Quote #259605

If a lion kills a gazelle, the Universe does not judge the lion as evil and the gazelle as good. The

Author: Russell Anthony Gibbs
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The darkness of the room is pulsing with gunfire, and by our standards we are grossly outnumbered -

Author: Isaac Marion
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The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher

Author: Steven Magee
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I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you

Author: Kim Yannayon
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A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.

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I do have the most adorable little Chihuahua mix. I adopted him about 3 1/2 years ago from Much Love

Author: Torrey DeVitto
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Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't.When you're up here, you reali

Author: Ally Condie
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Singing rose up from the convent, filling the woods with a peaceful echo that tried to penetrate her

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Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she get

Author: T.K. Naliaka
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We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its toler

Author: Jane Wilson-Howarth
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Author: John F. Kennedy
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You need to set a system of rewards and punishment for yourself and your team

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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When someone’s life fascinates, makes you jealous; don’t wish for his life, wish for his attitude, s

Author: Vivek Thangaswamy
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Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave

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Do you want to tell me what you're doing up here in the middle of the woods?" He gazed at her milky

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There comes a time for us not to just be survivors, but to be warriors. Yara, you have your life, an

Author: Becca Vry
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Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

Author: S.D. Crockett
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One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals.

Author: Gina Greenlee
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Are you managing your energy well and using it for things that matter? Do you stop to recharge befor

Author: Susan C. Young
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
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All knowledge begins with an expression of curiosity pertaining to the unknown or unknowable. Expres

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although

Author: Albrecht Durer
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I’m thinking, handsome, it might be good to end the biker lesson now seeing as this particular one m

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That’s when I realized it. I liked this girl. A lot. I liked her super-moist double chocolate chip c

Author: Anne Pfeffer
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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can sur

Author: Carol Burnett
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No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overc

Author: Sonam Kapoor
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Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Author: Bryant McGill
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Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something val

Author: Jim Rohn
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The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Author: Lewis Carroll
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Author: Florence Nightingale
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The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's j

Author: Konrad Adenauer
Quote #332667

NEVER STOP DREAMING. As DREAMS have the special powers to come true one day!

Author: Shaiju Mathew
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I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on t

Author: Peggy Toney Horton
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Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer

Author: Toni Sorenson
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like li

Author: Harmony Korine
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It is not the amount of friends that is important, but the amount of integrity, sincerity, and love

Author: Charles F. Glassman