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Finding Quotes (page 73)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it..."
Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand. Karl Marx
Terry Prachett quote: "Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the..."
Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits. Terry Prachett
Eleanor Porter quote: "Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything..."
Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas Eleanor Porter
If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting. Jodi Picoult
It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll. Benjamin Disraeli
I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don't find strangers declaring themselves to you awkward?' But then she wouldn't, would she? People must fall in love with her hourly. She must keep a staff of translators to interpret the proposals of love and marriage.'It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying,' Roxane said. Ann Patchett
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self. Thomas Merton
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Herman Hesse
Pierre Trudeau quote: "The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be..."
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. Pierre Trudeau
Sam Keen quote: "Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect..."
Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen
...an author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression. H. L. Mencken
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites Thomas Jefferson
If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists. Chuck Klosterman

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