“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.”
— John Locke
Author: John Locke
Category: truth
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“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.”
— Daniel Bell
Author: Daniel Bell
Category: knowledge
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“It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.”
— Mary Douglas
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: religion
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“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
Author: Queen Elizabeth II
Category: sympathy
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“In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.”
— Marlo Thomas
Author: Marlo Thomas
Category: strength
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.”
— Herbert Bayard Swope
Author: Herbert Bayard Swope
Category: success
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“Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.”
— Ray Comfort
Author: Ray Comfort
Category: society
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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.”
— Brooke Foss Westcott
Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
Category: men
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“I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.”
— John Poindexter
Author: John Poindexter
Category: technology
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“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: life
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“The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.”
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
Author: Salvatore J. Cordileone
Category: marriage
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