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• Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Fruit, Delicious

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• Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Philosophy, War, Responsibility

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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• When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, School, Son

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• I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

  Hugh Laurie

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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• A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you...but all the same, no matter which way you view it, they don't love you...and your heart doesn't know how to beat the same.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Beautiful, Sweet, Love You

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• The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

  Laozi

  Clever, Powerful, War

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• The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Real, Views

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• I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?

  Carolyn Custis James

  Jesus, Grief, Heart

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• Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  God, Mother, Divine Feminine

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.51, Random House

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• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Evil, Chimera

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• God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!

  Louis Evely

  God, Silence, Doe

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• I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

  Josh Billings

  Lying, Funny Business

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• The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

  John Daniel

  Rivers, Rumor, Environmental

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

  Guy Ritchie

  Morning, Two, Bed

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Director Guy Ritchie And Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

  Peter Mullan

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Perfect, Guy

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• I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

  Gene Tierney

  Father, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

  Michael Fassbender

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Lying, Gold, Well Known

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• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

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• If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Generations, Mormonism, World

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