"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people."

Bible on sin   

"Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. [Ephesians 6:4]"

Bible on fathers   

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

Baldwin, James on writers and writing
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"What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion."

Zhang Jie on vision   

"Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

Franklin, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots."

Jarry, Alfred on theater   

"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

Roux, Joseph on poetry and poets   

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."

Weinberg, Steven on experts   

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

Eliot, George on achievement
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"If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race."

Shaw, George Bernard on women   

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"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on success   

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

Lombardi, Vince on fatigue   

"It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so."

Junius on war   

"Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her."

Nin, Anais on women   

"The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated."

Orwell, George on communism and socialism
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"Faint heart never won fair lady."

Cervantes, Miguel De on war
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"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

Lakein, Alan on planning   

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

West, Rebecca on art   

"Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."

Shakespeare, William on judgment and judges
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"We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination."

Kennedy, John F. on nations   

"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."

Colton, Charles Caleb on greed
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"Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic."

Schuwdrmer, Otto on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Proverb, Chinese on power
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"Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism--obedience and love are."

Pippert, Rebecca M. on evangelism   

"Exuberance is beauty."

Blake, William on beauty
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on history and historians   

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"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."

Howard, Vernon on understanding
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"If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent."

Hurley, Edward N. on rivalry   

"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on punctuality   

"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."

Debord, Guy on materialism
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"A long dispute means that both parties are wrong"

Voltaire on argument
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"We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him."

Lawrence, Brother on faith   

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"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

Van Gogh, Vincent on painters and painting   

"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising."

Havel, Vaclav on theater   

"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee on language
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"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."

Baldwin, James on anger
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."

Conrad, Joseph on moon
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"Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid."

Bachelard, Gaston on ideas