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• Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Self, Blood, Soldier

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• Preach My Gospel missionaries act in faith and are guided by the Spirit to help investigators learn truth. Please always remember Him, be worthy to represent Him, treasure up His word, allow the Holy Ghost to witness all truth, and observe, listen, and discern as you testify of Jesus Christ to honest seekers of truth.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Spirit, Helping

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• A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Political, Doe, Purpose

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

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• If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

  Gloria Estefan

  Book, Reading, Parent

  Comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City, November 21, 2006.

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• It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Order, Land, Intellectual

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• You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Ebb And Flow, Depth

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 193

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• And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

  Rachel Hartman

  Ignorance, Needs, Killing

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.164, Random House

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• Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

  Clive James

  Pirate, Caves, Sometimes

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, People, Age

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 4, 2004.

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• The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Different, Speak

  "Martin Heidegger at Eighty". "Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays". Book by Michael Murray, p. 294, 1978.

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• He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

  Robert L. Millet

  Pain, Sacrifice, Bears

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• We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life.

  Roy Lessin

  Beautiful, Jesus, Differences

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• We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Earth, Revelations

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• Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

  Morgan Freeman

  Hero, Men, Honor

  "Actors who played Nelson Mandela react to news of his death". www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2013.

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• ...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, Secret Identity

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• Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.

  Rachel Hartman

  Book, Dragons, Age

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• America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Voice, America, Should

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• No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

  Ken Burns

  Baseball, Hero, Book

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• We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

  Max De Pree

  Trials, Accumulation, Tribulation

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• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ocean, Thinking

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• It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Sight, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.97

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• Golden volumes! richest treasures,
  Objects of delicious pleasures!
  You my eyes rejoicing please,
  You my hand in rapture seize!
  Brilliant wits and musing sages,
  Lights who beam'd through many ages!
  Left to your conscious leaves their story,
  And dared to trust you with their glory;
  And now their hope of fame achiev'd,
  Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Eye, Light

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• Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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• An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

  May Sarton

  Sex, Despair, Body

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.95, Open Road Media

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