"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler on adversity
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"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

Miller, Henry on destiny
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"A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not."

Talmud, The on joy
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"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow."

Talmud, The on adversity
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

Kennedy, John F. on risk
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"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."

White, Elwyn Brooks on grammar   

"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."

Poe, Edgar Allan on grammar
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"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."

Hemingway, Ernest on grammar
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"I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!"

Miller, Henry on inspiration   

"I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language."

Ogilvy, David on persuasion   

"It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds."

Illich, Ivan on silence   

"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."

Paz, Octavio on criticism   

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

White, Elwyn Brooks on writers and writing   

"Grammar, which can govern even Kings."

Moliere on grammar   

"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."

Didion, Joan on grammar   

"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on voting   

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on voting
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"The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on voting
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"We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today."

Prichard, Peter on voting   

"I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place."

Shaw, George Bernard on democracy   

"A man without a vote is man without protection."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on government
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"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. "

Nathan, George Jean on uncategorised
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"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case. "

Paine, Thomas on uncategorised   

"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Vidal, Gore on voting
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"The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man."

Gregory The Great, St. on elections
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"You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble."

Kennedy, John F. on voting   

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on elections   

"I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

Kennedy, John F. on elections
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests"

Vidal, Gore on language
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"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year."

Clinton, Bill on politics
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

Barth, Karl on laughter
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"Nobody ever died of laughter."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on laughter
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on laughter
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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