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It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods. Jon Stewart
Jane Austen quote: "Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and..."
Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal. Jane Austen
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. Michel de Montaigne
One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by. Noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiosity, Napoleon turned around and said brusquely, ‘Who is this good man looking at me?’ ‘Sire,’ replied M. Myriel, “you are looking at a good man, and I at a great one. May we both be the better for it.” That evening the emperor asked the cardinal the priest’s name, Still later, M. Myriel was totally... Victor Hugo
Benjamin Franklin quote: "there was great difference between persons and, discretion did..."
there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it Benjamin Franklin
Muddling along ... is the great secret to life... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen" - Gallen in Intrigues Mercedes Lackey
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. Arthur Miller
Wendell Berry quote: "He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention..."
He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head. Wendell Berry
His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism? though Calvin was not the author of them, but simply an able writer and preacher upon the subject? are, I believe, the essential doctrines of the gospel that is in Jesus Christ. Now, I do not ask you whether you believe all this? it is possible you may not; but I believe you will before you enter heaven. Charles Spurgeon
The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires. H. Rider Haggard
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation..."
It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel Friedrich Nietzsche
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment. Elizabeth Gaskell
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
Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord. Gordon B. Hinckley

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