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it would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their... Sigmund Freud
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, and to know that all blessed dead are standing about you and watching. Work is love made visible. Khalil Gibran
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive. John Irving
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing? Lewis Carroll
Pat Conroy quote: "it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an..."
it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise. Pat Conroy
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. Kazuo Ishiguro
Stephenie Meyer quote: "It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the..."
It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the prize rather than the outrageously lucky winner. Stephenie Meyer
It is a child speaking," said Merlin, "not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you would know, my lord, that there is more to a king than a crown, and far more to a knight than a sword. You were a knight when you grappled Pellinore unarmed."And he defeated me."You were a knight," said Merlin. "Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat... John Steinbeck
Rupert Murdoch quote: "It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the..."
It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. Rupert Murdoch
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders. John H. Morgan
Mary Tyler Moore quote: "It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that..."
It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine. Mary Tyler Moore
It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult. Wentworth Miller
John Stuart Mill quote: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made..."
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill
Frederick The Great quote: "It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know:..."
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. Frederick The Great
David Geffen quote: "It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible..."
It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life. David Geffen

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