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• I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

  Jim Burke

  People, Prove, Happens

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.

  Emo Philips

  Cheer, Feelings, Dollar Bills

  Psychology Today, July 2006.

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• I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.

  Horatius Bonar

  Church, World

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• I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

  Joyce Brothers

  Doe, Get Back

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Party, Rights

  "Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.

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• The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Office, Speech

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• We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

  Loren Eiseley

  Teacher, Learning, School

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.43, Library of America

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• God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

  Robert Breault

  God, Doe, Want

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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

  Antonio Porchia

  Self, Somewhere Else, Bears

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• All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

  Gamaliel

  Men, Silence, Sage

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• The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Self, Practice

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• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  Hanneli Mustaparta

  Photography, Taken, Modeling

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• You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself 'Samuel Conrad'. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat- as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Running, Twilight, Animal

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• Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Country, Queens

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• Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Morning, Sex, People

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• My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Views, Leaving, Satisfaction

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.238, Hackett Publishing

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• And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hands, America

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

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• Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.42

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• When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Men, Remember

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

  Euripides

  Son, Two, Found You

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Rafters, Courtesy

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.92

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• So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
  That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
  A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
  Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

  John Milton

  Angel, Heaven, Soul

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.27

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