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• He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

  John Bunyan

  Sorrow

  John Bunyan, Thomas Scott (1825). “The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts”, p.56

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• A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Real, Food, Self

  "An Alphabet for Gourmets". Book by M. F. K. Fisher, 1949.

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• No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

  Hugh Nibley

  Secret, Sacred, Matter

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• Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Conclusion, Articles

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.106, Oxford University Press

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• During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, News, Information

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• If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Past, Hands

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.231, Shambhala Publications

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• The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Jobs, Hands

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

  Tony Abbott

  Kids, Thinking, Wife

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal. What makes me happy is going out and blowing a duck's head off.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Meals, Going Out

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Running, Cutting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace.

  John Stott

  Christian, Spiritual, Cutting

  John Stott (2013). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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• I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Passion, Soul, Deception

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• So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Style, Want

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• When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Next Week, Waiting, Pieces

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• It's important for people to believe in themselves. It's important for young girls to have the opportunity to excel and promote themselves, and learn how to communicate and that they can be individuals, yet accomplish so much. The Girl Scouts and other organizations like them make that so important, so vital. Girls are given the opportunity very early in life to give them that confidence in themselves. It's crucial for organizations to support young women.

  Linda Chavez-Thompson

  Girl, Believe, Opportunity

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• Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

  Hesiod

  Literature, Wealth, Saving Money

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• The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

  Basil W. Maturin

  Fighting, Men, Winning

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• I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Morning, Father

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• Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Important, Exploration

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Army, Government

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• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  Wendell Phillips

  Statesmen, Presidency, Seventies

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.309

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• For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

  Michael W. Smith

  Kings, Favors, Reason

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• God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.

  Laura Story

  Opportunity, Today Not Tomorrow, Talent

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• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Democracies Have, Self

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• A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'

  M. C. Escher

  Crazy, Illustration, Reptiles

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