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I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.