"If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity."

Kennedy, John F. on conflict
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"The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools."

Unknown, Source on information
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"God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs."

Stowell, Joseph on god
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."

Diderot, Denis on philosophers and philosophy
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"Don't go through life, grow through life."

Butterworth, Eric on growth
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"Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters."

Presser, Ross on life
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure."

Samuel, Herbert on marriage
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"One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."

Bachelard, Gaston on ideas   

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on grief
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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."

Santayana, George on disease   

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America."

Carter, Jimmy on human rights
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"Progress is the stride of God."

Hugo, Victor on progress   

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Stumbling is not falling."

Proverb, Portuguese on adversity
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

Buck, Pearl S. on understanding
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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Buck, Pearl S. on slavery   

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

Buck, Pearl S. on age and aging
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"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."

Buck, Pearl S. on freedom
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"The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool."

Buck, Pearl S. on husbands
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. "

Buck, Pearl S. on mind
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Buck, Pearl S. on mistakes   

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."

Buck, Pearl S. on knowledge
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"The power to tax is the power to destroy."

Marshall, John on taxes and taxation
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"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."

Baker, Karl on growth
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius on growth
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"A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy."

Proverb, Irish on debt   

"A good lawyer is a bad neighbor."

Proverb, French on law and lawyers   

"Love is the river of life in the world."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

Francis De Sales, St. on quarrels
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"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action   

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet."

Dane, Frank on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end."

Unknown on bed