At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

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Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent femal

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Grace comes from God.

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People are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to t

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The best way to die is when your living

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time

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She was 3/4 perfection and 1/4 broken glass.

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River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm.

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You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr

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Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories

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The Bible is a book that every Christian should read, listen to, or have read to him or her througho

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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental l

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Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was

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While I was looking the other way your fire went outLeft me with cinders to kick into dustWhat a was

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It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinc

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When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. Whe

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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The one who finds contentment is truly rich.

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I want more than last night. I want you.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent

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Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged.

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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

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When things go wrong don't go with them.

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She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you.

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The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

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Night when deep sleep falleth on men.

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Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world wo

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As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a

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Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other

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Through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

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They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the m

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When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion w

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I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

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Believe is the gateway to great treasures.

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I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

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The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

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We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his lov

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Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit

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So much of one's life was spent reading

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Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I

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Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage

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He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker,”

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If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I

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Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving th

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Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext

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Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

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The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The De

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron

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Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity with

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I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one bad

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Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's go

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Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up.

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Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be

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When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no o

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The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.

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I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!

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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new int

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

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Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most poli

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I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments,

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For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience

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Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming.

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Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will th

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In my silence do I enhance my talents

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