Always continue the climb. It is possible

“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Category: work
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I have a total irreverence for anything

“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”

— Brendan Behan

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Category: women
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Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps

“Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.”

— Michael J. Fox

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Category: nature
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An order of government, established by such

“An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.”

— Orson Pratt

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Category: happiness
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal

“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.”

— Robert Bork

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Category: science
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