“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?”
— Kate Chopin
Author: Kate Chopin
Category: music
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“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”
— Colin Powell
Author: Colin Powell
Category: religion
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“Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.”
— Christopher Reeve
Author: Christopher Reeve
Category: wisdom
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“A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.”
— Fredrik Bajer
Author: Fredrik Bajer
Category: peace
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“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
— Albert Einstein
Author: Albert Einstein
Category: truth
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“Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.”
— Steve Chabot
Author: Steve Chabot
Category: marriage
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“Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.”
— Jim Barksdale
Author: Jim Barksdale
Category: technology
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“You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.”
— Judith Light
Author: Judith Light
Category: peace
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“I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.”
— Ben Barnes
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Category: war
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“Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.”
— Jack Kingston
Author: Jack Kingston
Category: marriage
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“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”
— Edward Thorndike
Author: Edward Thorndike
Category: nature
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