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Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.
-- Abdallah Ansari (Persian poet) |
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
-- Agatha Christie |
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I love this world as a dead world. And always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, and all one craves for is a warm face, the warmth and wonder of the living heart.
-- Albert Camus |
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There are words I have never really understoood, such as "sin". Yet I believe these men have never sinned against lfe. For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implaceble grandeur of this life.
-- Albert Camus |
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Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.
-- Alex Tan |
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I know not what they mean
tears from the depths of some divine despair
rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes
in looking on the happy autumn fields
and thinking of the days that are no more.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go, it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
-- Alice Swaim |
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To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup.
-- an emotional French Soccer Semifinal Hero, Lillian Thuram, on his father appearing on television wea |
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.
-- Anais Nin |
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.
-- Anais Nin |
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
-- Andy Rooney |
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I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
-- Anna Quindlen |
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In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
-- Anne Frank |
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Good communications is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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