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• Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

  William Hazlitt

  Weakness, Degrees, Liable

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Liars

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• All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Mean, Past

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• If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

  Ken Ham

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Simple, Religion

  "Should Religion Impact Your Vote?" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Powerful, Views

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• The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Light, Community

  "Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction". Book by Kathrin Glüer, p. 213, December 5, 2011.

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• We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.

  Magic Johnson

  Business, Philosophy, Community

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• To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make - he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Fun, Thinking

  "Ralph Lauren Responds To Kanye West's 'It Ain't Ralph, Though' Line" by Marissa G. Muller, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2014.

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• Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Meditation, Serenity

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Sympathy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Art, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “Crusade Against Ignorance”

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• The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Food, Cooking

  "Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

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• But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Stars, Food, Vintage

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• The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Eye, Compassion, Giving

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.37

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• Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

  Joseph Butler

  Pain, Compassion, Mind

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”

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• Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

  Robert Goulet

  Daughter, Mother, Fighting

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• All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

  Jeremy Sisto

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

  Norah Jones

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

  James McGreevey

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

  Jamelia

  Daughter, Mother, Priorities

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• My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

  Kamala Harris

  Daughter, Mother, Opportunity

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