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• horse
• liked
• horses

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses. Enid Bagnold

• faith
• knowledge
• mind

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind Ayn Rand

• history
• writing
• great man

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde

• hard
• truths
• admittedly

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit. Nicholas Sparks

• may
• yearly
• knowingly

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again. Edith Wharton

• fighting
• heart
• manly

Why, pray, must the Argives needs fight the Trojans? What made the son of Atreus gather the host and bring them? Was it not for the sake of Helen? Are the sons of Atreus the only men in the world who love their wives? Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart Homer

• love
• good
• some good

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. Mercedes Lackey

• queen
• thinking
• world

I must passed the crest a while ago. And now I am going down. Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know, But the brambles were always catching the hem of my gown. And the morning I thought how proud I should be. To stand there straight as a queen, Wrapped in the wind and the sun with the world under me. But the air was dull; there was little I could have seen. It was nearly level along the beaten track. And the brambles caught in my gown. But it's no use now to think of turning back,... Sara Teasdale

• walking
• night
• wind

I walked around as you do, investigatingthe endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind. Pablo Neruda

• words
• clothes
• outer

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas. Agatha Christie

• imagination
• imaginable
• see

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations. Albert Einstein

• known
• would
• been

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. Albert Einstein

• greatness
• understanding
• world

Let thethings be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. This is what makes them so dear andworthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can lovethem. And this is now a teaching you will laugh about: love, oh. Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. Tothoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may bethe thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able tolove the... Herman Hesse

• animal
• animate
• things

The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography. Chuck Palahniuk

• worship
• society
• faith

It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living... Abraham Joshua Heschel