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Real Live Preacher
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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William Fullbright
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
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Jean Cocteau
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Gore Vidal
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
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Martina Navratilova
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
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William Blake
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
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N. P. Willis
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
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