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• earth
• common sense
• common

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. Albert Einstein

• time
• may
• question

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Thomas Jefferson

• night
• walking
• words

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. Sue Monk Kidd

• mindfulness
• world
• chance

We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it. Stephen Fry

• work
• words
• love

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery. Mother Teresa

• new
• world
• society

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take. Paulo Coelho

• great
• king
• greatness

Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage. C. S. Lewis

• eyes
• dark
• light

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Henry David Thoreau

• giving
• wellness
• willfulness

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. Henry David Thoreau

• people
• winning
• war

Oh, Im not complaining. I know theres a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them? Joseph Heller

• self
• men
• who we are

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. Paul Auster

• good
• saying
• marriage

You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people... Kingsley Amis

• god
• death
• lost

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us. Jeffrey Eugenides

• thinking
• imagination
• true

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. Jose Saramago

• wallpaper
• wills
• thy

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. Oscar Wilde