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| If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams. |
Eric Pio |
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| Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. |
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero |
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| When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself. |
Luigi Pirandello |
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| You see things and you say 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not' |
Luigi Pirandello |
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| In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. |
Luigi Pirandello |
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| The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. |
Gifford Pinchot |
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| Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. |
John Piper |
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| The measure of a man is what he does with power. |
Pittacus |
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| Know the right moment. |
Pittacus |
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| Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she'd say if I spent it like a sober congressman |
R. W. Plagge |
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| We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. |
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck |
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| It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. |
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck |
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| Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. |
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck |
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| An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning. |
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck |
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| Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves. |
William Pitt |
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| Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. |
William Pitt |
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| Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker. |
William Pitt |
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| You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. |
Robert M. Pirsig |
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| To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. |
Robert M. Pirsig |
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| You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. |
Robert M. Pirsig |
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| The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. |
Robert M. Pirsig |
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| Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. |
William Plomer |
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| Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. |
Pliny |
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| It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. |
J. R. Platt |
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| You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. |
John J. Plomp |
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| Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore. |
Simon Pokagon |
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| A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. |
Georges Pompidou |
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| Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure. |
Valerie Polakow |
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| They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. |
Iggy Pop |
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| Nihilism is best done by professionals. |
Iggy Pop |
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| Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun. |
Persian Mystic Poem |
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| Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile. |
Allison Poler |
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| We come and go just like ripples in a stream. |
John V. Politis |
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| He who laughs, lasts |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
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| To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains. |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
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| People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
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| If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. |
Pope John Paul I |
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| There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim. |
Pope Gregory The Great |
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| I don't dream about actors and actresses They dream about me. I am reality, they are not. |
Alexander Popov |
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| I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. |
Alexander Popov |
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| The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training. |
Pope Pius XI |
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| Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. |
Pope Pius XI |
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| It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good. |
Pope Pius XI |
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| Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. |
Pope John XXIII |
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| Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,but with what it is still possible for you to do. |
Pope John XXIII |
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| Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity. |
Pope John Paul II |
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| The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. |
Pope John Paul II |
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| The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. |
Pope John Paul II |
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| The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. |
Pope John Paul II |
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| To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. |
Pope John Paul II |
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| The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. |
Pope John Paul II |
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| There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. |
Sir Karl Popper |
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| Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. |
Laurens Van der Post |
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| The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves. |
Laurens Van der Post |
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| Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. |
Laurens Van der Post |
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| Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. |
Jane Porter |
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| Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. |
Katherine Anne Porter |
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| I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. |
Katherine Anne Porter |
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| Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot. |
Steve Post |
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| One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. |
Antonio Porchia |
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| In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. |
Antonio Porchia |
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| Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality. |
Beatrix Potter |
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| All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. |
Beatrix Potter |
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| I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether. |
Neil Postman |
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| The web eliminates all hiding places. |
Jim Povec |
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| The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. |
Ezra Loomis Pound |
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| Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. |
Ezra Loomis Pound |
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| There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48. |
Ezra Loomis Pound |
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| Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. |
Ezra Loomis Pound |
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| I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president) |
Alma Powell |
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| Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make. |
Dennis Potter |
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| Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. |
William Powell |
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| History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. |
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. |
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| History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen. |
Enoch Powell |
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| Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. |
Anthony Powell |
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| He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. |
Anthony Powell |
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| One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop. |
Colin |
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| Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. |
Colin |
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| A sense of share is not a bad moral compass. |
Colin |
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| There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. |
Colin |
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| Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung. |
Colin |
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| Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate. |
David Pratt |
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| God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen. |
Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer |
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| To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them. |
Hugh Prather |
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| Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition. |
Hugh Prather |
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| Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow |
Hugh Prather |
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| The price of being the best is having to be the best. |
Terry Pratchett |
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| Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot. |
Terry Pratchett |
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| Personal isn't the same as important. |
Terry Pratchett |
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| Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child. |
Dennis Prager |
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| Educate the heart -- educate the heart. Let us have good men. |
Hiram Powers |
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| To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift. |
Steve Prefontaine |
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| We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable. |
George Dennison Prentice |
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| Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true. |
George Dennison Prentice |
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| Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. |
George Dennison Prentice |
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| What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. |
George Dennison Prentice |
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| Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life. |
Jewish Prayer |
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| And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth. |
Native American Prayer |
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| I'd rather go on hearing your lies than to go on living without you. |
Elvis Presley |
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| I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. |
Elvis Presley |
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