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IAN HARDING I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid. IAN HARDING My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. IAN HARDING If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bo... IAN HARDING I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly w... IAN HARDING I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: What ca... WARREN HARDING Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no ... WARREN HARDING The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the p... PAUL HARDING Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it? FLORENCE HARDING I have only one real hobby - my husband. 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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. 
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... 
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass... 
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven 
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a remi... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of ... 
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this w... 
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
A little man often cast a long shadow. 
A little man often cast a long shadow. 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an... 
You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what... 
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... 
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. 
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpo... 
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpos... 
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Hodor," said Hodor. 
We die a day at a time 
In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... 
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... 
If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... 
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti... 
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. 
Like a deep sad note
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, th... 
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. 
Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life des... 
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow. 
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo... 
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personalit... 
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. 
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b... 
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b... 
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig... 
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend... 
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... 
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m... 
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... 
The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... 
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. 