Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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