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There are people who strictly depri…

3 May , 2016  

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has […]

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There are people who, instead of li…

3 May , 2016  

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Guinon , (1863 – 1923)

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Samuel Johnson, Rambler #18

There is no observation more freque…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and […]

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Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

There will always be a part, and al…

25 Feb , 2014  

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny , English author, […]

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Therefore, be ye lamps unto yoursel…

25 Feb , 2014  

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to […]

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Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001

They were going to die. They knew i…

25 Jan , 2014  

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love… People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity? Great […]

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Think of how many religions attempt…

17 Dec , 2013  

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? Great short quote and quotation by: Carl Sagan , […]

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Sir James Barrie

Those who bring sunshine to the liv…

17 Apr , 2013  

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir James Barrie ,

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Those who would deny freedom to oth…

24 May , 2012  

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Great short quote and quotation by: Abraham Lincoln , 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

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Thousands of geniuses live and die …

17 Jan , 2012  

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. Great short quote and quotation by: Unknown , Quotations by unknown authors

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Thousands of geniuses live and die …

17 Jan , 2012  

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

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Thus have the gods spun the thread …

19 Dec , 2011  

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. Great short quote and quotation by: Homer, The Iliad , Greek epic […]

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