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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human
meekness, and in human responsibility.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
- in purpose
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
- in change and growth
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A useless life is an early death.
- in life
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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.
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We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too
bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of
women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to
have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
- in women
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- in children
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Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a
few fastidious people.
- in writing and writers
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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
- in children
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... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small
number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply
a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even
that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
- in time
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You will know the real meaning of love when you fall in love.
- in love
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- in science
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People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other
people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
- in integrity and individuality
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For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
- in children
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