"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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"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

Augustine, St. on Adversity
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."

Augustine, St. on Truth
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

Augustine, St. on Belief
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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on Habit
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]"

Villa, Pancho on Famous Last Words
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude on Famous Last Words
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"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"

Socrates on Famous Last Words
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"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"

Antoinette, Marie on Famous Last Words
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on Adversity
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"Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized."

Dworkin, Andrea on Dissent
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"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya on Life, Lust For
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert on Absurdity
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"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. "

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