As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Author: Paul Simon

Author: Paul Simon

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But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Author: Mitch Albom
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Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than th

Author: Billy Graham
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I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light with

Author: Girl234
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If Jack had followed him instead of trying to reclaim his car, he would undoubtedly have voiced his

Author: Alexander Ferrick
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a c

Author: Iain Duncan Smith
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The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was

Author: Gary Patton
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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Quote #301840

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

Author: Greg Cootsona
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Author: Truman Capote
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Author: Richard Bach
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are le

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Author: Golda Meir
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How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?

Author: Bruce Coville
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There is no universal language in the jungles; each species has its own language, and though the voc

Author: Jim Corbett
Quote #226159

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

Author: Bryant McGill
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In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endl

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
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The composite of what you know to do—that which compels you, that which you are naturally already dr

Author: Darrell Calkins
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There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart

Author: Stanley Victor Paskavich
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Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Author: Michael Pollan
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I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially act

Author: Charlie Kaufman
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Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Author: Bob Ehrlich
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There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the pa

Author: M.T. Anderson
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There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your le

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #40307

I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless amo

Author: Jillian Lauren
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The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.

Author: Missy Lyons
Quote #213215

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #89138

Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too c

Author: Jennifer DeLucy
Quote #308684

By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our

Author: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all natio

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah
Quote #54904

You have a great destiny ahead of you. The one thing that is standing between you and your destiny,

Author: D.S. Mashego
Quote #258925

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories

Author: Zack Love
Quote #329608

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we

Author: Sherry Turkle
Quote #299094

Open your heart! Even in trying times. Relax. Breathe. Allow. Feel lighter, happier, and at peace.

Author: Dawn Gluskin
Quote #322037

Racism is a disease of white people

Author: Albert Einstein
Quote #365362

Please don't question the insane glaresJust give me today,And tomorrow,Tomorrowwe will matter.

Author: Nema Al-Araby
Quote #76702

You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am you

Author: Megan Shepherd
Quote #13656

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until w

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote #153502

Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgott

Author: Mandy Hale
Quote #329569

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with bol

Author: Philip Zaleski
Quote #6280

Don’t allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn’t suit or seems unsightly to you.

Author: Colleen Houck
Quote #488652

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate ho

Author: Daniel H. Wilson
Quote #357057

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

Author: Anthony Doerr
Quote #177620

Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.

Author: Archibald Marwizi
Quote #305851

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and

Author: Harry Houdini
Quote #150137

What is your calling? Find it and ardently live it.

Author: Unknown
Quote #362248

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quote #229284

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think.

Author: David Foster Wallace
Quote #34638

Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir fina

Author: Philip Larkin
Quote #237754

It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it l

Author: Haruki Murakami
Quote #319029

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a s

Author: Kiera Cass
Quote #3743

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Quote #133436

Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their uniqu

Author: Tamara L. Chilver
Quote #210200

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t con

Author: Kyle Morton
Quote #449554

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but

Author: Michael Polanyi
Quote #53751

Being friendzoned is like standing near fire. You stand there to seek some warmth, but get burnt ins

Author: Toffee
Quote #484673

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Author: Norman Douglas
Quote #29865

A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently.

Author: L.A. Weatherly
Quote #290303

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a m

Author: Alexandre Dumas
Quote #191147

Look for the consistency and you will find all the trust you need. It is often found in the people t

Author: Shannon L. Alder
Quote #239031

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #342857

I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became stu

Author: Nick Hornby
Quote #70574

The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
Quote #12375

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Author: Gore Vidal
Quote #495541

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

Author: Ryan Reynolds
Quote #268693

Find another solution. That’s how you move toward success.

Author: Amber Hurdle
Quote #112411

I have thought that the word America must mean different things to the people who live under its aeg

Author: Harvey Broome
Quote #189206

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #64817

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

Author: S. Kelley Harrell
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This is the way the wheel turns, coming at last to full circle, with wild as well as tame at he crib

Author: P.L. Travers
Quote #1493

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough

Author: Anna Louise Strong
Quote #330763

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

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #165713

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse

Author: Veronica Roth
Quote #304116

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart,

Author: Wendy K. Williamson
Quote #425729

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme

Author: Morrissey
Quote #116612

2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks.

Author: Jenim Dibie
Quote #308057

Darkness tests stars,but they shine.Storms test trees,but they stand.Adversity tests the great,but t

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #330658

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #327961

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquer

Author: Edward Abbey
Quote #295063

Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them

Author: Tom Hopkins
Quote #256740

Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #182591

They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever

Author: Jessamine Verzosa
Quote #95621

True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.

Author: Farshad Asl
Quote #164038

And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with b

Author: Imbolo Mbue
Quote #56444

Less small talk and more real talk.

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #397622

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nat

Author: Anna Politkovskaya
Quote #72205

Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with

Author: Randy Gonzales
Quote #418517

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

Author: Arlene Croce
Quote #208950

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weak

Author: Michael Xavier
Quote #59043

What's the best time, someone asked me.., I simply replied "Spent with the loved ones".

Author: Zain Baloch
Quote #426717

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

Author: Shahid Kapoor
Quote #492048

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

Author: Nicholas Kristof
Quote #261136

Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you’re thinking. Especial

Author: Chris Kuhn
Quote #33809

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.

Author: Caitlin Doughty
Quote #408961

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote #267281

Fireworks can make us both happy and sad. It just depends if we are talking about fireworks in the s

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
Quote #7092

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinc

Author: Cassandra Clare
Quote #391099

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, th

Author: Lady Augusta Gregory
Quote #212810

Sometimes when you are falling down you grow wings to fly.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #175532

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake

Author: Herbie Hancock