"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

Lennon, John on jesus christ
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"The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies."

Waite, Terry on terrorism   

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

Buddha on belief
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

Disraeli, Benjamin on circumstance
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."

Getty, J. Paul on experience
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"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."

Getty, J. Paul on money   

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

Getty, J. Paul on work   

"One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]"

Bible on giving   

"To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]"

Bible on giving
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"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]"

Bible on age and aging
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"With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]"

Bible on age and aging
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"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose."

Franklin, Benjamin on conversation
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"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."

Franklin, Benjamin on wish and wishing
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road."

Allen, Charles L. on jesus christ
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."

Artaud, Antonin on drugs
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"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."

Penn, William on war   

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Penn, William on kindness
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"I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property."

Gillies, Jerry on mistakes   

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on unity   

"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

Huxley, Aldous on drugs
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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

Quayle, Dan on environment
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"The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes."

Twain, Mark on masses   

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

Twain, Mark on nations
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"A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

Twain, Mark on bankers and banking
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"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Twain, Mark on politics
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"Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

Twain, Mark on complaints and complaining
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"One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool."

Proverb, Chinese on humor
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

Washington, George on mothers
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"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully."

Weldon, Fay on mothers   

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

Mother Teresa on peace
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love"

Mother Teresa on love
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa on kindness
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"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."

Mother Teresa on jesus christ
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