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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.." -Victor Hugo-
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.".-Isaac Asimov-
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.".-Oscar Wilde-
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.".-Adam Smith
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"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.".-Francis Bacon-
"Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.".-Bob Dylan-
"Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.".-Eric Butterworth-
"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.".-Phillips Brooks-
"Laughter is by definition healthy.".-Doris Lessing-
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.".-Mark Twain-
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.".-Victor Borge-
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.".-Coco Chanel-
"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.".-Yves Saint-Laurent-
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"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.".-Fred Astaire-
"Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.".-A. W. Tozer-
"Perfection is perfectly simple;fouling things up requires true skill.".-Doug Horton-
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.".-Matthew Arnold-
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it;the tree is the real thing.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.".-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-
"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.".-Henry Miller-
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.".-Noam Chomsky-
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"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners;it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness;a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.".-Charles Simmons-
"Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry;bookkeeping, but he has probably had much more influence on human life;than has Dante or Michelangelo.".-Herbert J. Muller-
"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;aspiring to be angels men rebel.".-Alexander Pope-
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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.." -William H. Borah-
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.".-Isaac Asimov-
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.".-Adlai E. Stevenson
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"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
"The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus;an age fatal to revolutionists.".-Camille Desmoulins-
"The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.".-Fjodor M. Dostojewski-
"It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.".-Vance Havner-
"Laughter is higher than all pain.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.".-Mark Twain-
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.".-Victor Hugo-
"Fashion is made to become unfashionable.".-Coco Chanel-
"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.".-Henry Fielding-
"Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.".-Aldous Huxley-
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"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.".-Helen Rowland-
"Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory;then you can borrow money of them.".-Mark Twain-
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.".-Albert Einstein-
"Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.".-Henry Fuseli-
"As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.".-Oscar Wilde-
"At every word a reputation dies.".-Alexander Pope-
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.".-Francesco Petrarch-
"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.".-Herbert A. Otto-
"Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.".-Alexander Maclaren-
"It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.".-Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch-
"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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