The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
#quotes #bill-harley #stories

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. ~Jennifer Aniston
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. ~Freddy Adu
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
#quotes #tommy-tenney #god #king #honor

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
#quotes #james-comwell #entertainment #careers

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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