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| With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle. |
French Proverb |
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| A white wall is the fool's paper. |
French Proverb |
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| Travellers from afar can lie with impunity. |
French Proverb |
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| Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse) |
French Proverb |
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| You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. |
Henry Drummond |
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| Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. |
Henry Drummond |
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| Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand. |
Henry Drummond |
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| Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. |
Henry Drummond |
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| To get to heaven we must take it with us. |
Henry Drummond |
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| There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. |
Mother Theresa |
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| If you judge people, you have no time to love them. |
Mother Theresa |
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| If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. |
Mother Theresa |
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| I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. |
Mother Theresa |
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| I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. |
Mother Theresa |
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| People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. |
Mother Theresa |
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| We can do no great things, only small things with great love. |
Mother Theresa |
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| We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls. |
Mother Theresa |
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| What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. |
Mother Theresa |
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| The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. |
Mother Theresa |
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| There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough. |
Mother Theresa |
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| One must really have suffered oneself to help others. |
Mother Theresa |
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| People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. |
Mother Theresa |
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| The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. |
Mother Theresa |
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| I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. |
Mother Theresa |
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| To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. |
Mother Theresa |
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| I see God in every human being. |
Mother Theresa |
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| If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Life is a promise fulfill it. |
Mother Theresa |
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| We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. |
Mother Theresa |
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| We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. |
Mother Theresa |
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| We are all pencils in the hand of God. |
Mother Theresa |
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| The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given. |
Mother Theresa |
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| I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did |
Mother Theresa |
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| God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. |
Mother Theresa |
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| Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. |
Mother Theresa |
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| The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. |
Raymond Chandler |
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| She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. |
Raymond Chandler |
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| Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. |
Raymond Chandler |
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| At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. |
Raymond Chandler |
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| A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. |
Edward R. Murrow |
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| I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
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| I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. |
William J. Clinton |
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| There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. |
William J. Clinton |
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| The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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| We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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| It's always too early to quit. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Change your thoughts and you change your world. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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| It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. |
William Blackstone |
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| Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. |
William Blackstone |
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| I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. |
Muriel Rukeyser |
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| The universe is made of stories, not atoms. |
Muriel Rukeyser |
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