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The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place


Ernest Bramah

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LIONEL SUGGS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It's just great to be in a place where there is so much political rhetoric. As long as they have con...
DANIELLE FOX Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capri...
E.M. FORSTER I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON It is very difficult to prevent violence at a protest where a huge number of people are gathered, es...
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BILL FRIST When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple you...
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DEYTH BANGER I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
SIR FRANCIS BACON I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
FRANCIS BACON They are just getting on transportation and taken some place they have never lived before, ... That ...
SALVATION ARMY When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marri...
SHERYL SANDBERG The message is, we have tools that are very accurate, but they don't work at all if they are not use...
CHRISTOPHER SAUDEK Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is mo...
THOR HEYERDAHL Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to w...
EHUD OLMERT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in tha...
C.S. LEWIS They are much leaner than they were. But they are not as lean as they need to be in comparison to th...
DAVID COLE Men coming out of the high school system know they will be taken care of by the bounty of the state....
BEN REILLY People are waiting longer to have kids, so they have more disposable income to spend when they final...
MIRIAM AROND People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
INA GARTEN There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When these guys are over there, they don't have any place to spend their money. And they get combat ...
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STEVE COPPELL Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on t...
FRANTZ FANON The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
CLAUDE T. BISSELL The Chinese are trying to demonstrate that they are not only the world's largest country but a major...
JEFFREY BADER I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distribute...
MARY TODD LINCOLN The people here have already had so much taken away. We don't want them now thinking they are going ...
SCOTT HAMILTON They are very puzzled as to what the American administration is doing. They have absolutely no trust...
GRAHAM NASH The consumer is much, much younger and wants only the finest quality that they can find and they are...
BRUCE GOLDSTEIN Philosophers think deep and forget to live for the present. They admire beauty so much that they are...
EPHDAN I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much...
JANE GREEN It is preposterous to think that they could be involved in any kind of criminality. They have not ha...
LEE BAIG Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I think they rely on me so much to have the ball. So their confidence is not as high as it should be...
JASMINE WHITBY If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adve...
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COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH I don't want to threaten lawsuits. But they should have a reasonable expectation that there would be...
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EUGENIE SCOTT When they say 'teach the controversy' — their ringing phrase — they want us to pretend to students...
EUGENIE SCOTT Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges...
JOSH LISS Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people a...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE They that study much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their Digestion being not so...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything r...
SALLUST The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures no...
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MICK LEXINGTON I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.
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MARK VONNEGUT I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel l...
JOHN DENVER My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... ...
KEVIN WILSON This will demonstrate that when they send in their membership payment, it is going to support a vari...
GAIL PARSONS Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
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JULES VERNE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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DAVE ABERCROMBIE Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, ...
CHARLES H. PERCY Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
IRIS MURDOCH Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You can't hand over the keys to the kingdom just yet -- but you can show him the box they come in. T...
LAURA CONIGLIARO I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessing...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I know that in this province, the buck would have stopped with me, ... I would first of all, if they...
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JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD This is a little surprising, because I know that some of the integration work had already taken plac...
ROBERT MARTIN The near-term savings are not going to be as much as it needs to be. What it does is keep them from ...
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ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op...
ERNEST RENAN No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain ...
ERNEST RENAN Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his l...
ERNEST RENAN