"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."

Harrigan, John on love
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"Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe."

Hardenberg, Novalis on love
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"Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

Gordon, Rabbi J. on love
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"The best way to know God is to love many things."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Dayan, Moshe on peace
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"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."

Halifax, Edward F. on chance
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"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."

Spark, Muriel on catholicism
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"Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past."

Fox, Matthew on catholicism   

"Surviving well is your finest revenge."

Nito, Morgan on revenge
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"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."

Holtz, Lou on revenge
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"Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned."

Bronte, Charlotte on revenge
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"Chance favors only those who court her."

Nicolle, Charles on chance   

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Einstein, Albert on mathematics
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on character
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"All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on character   

"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are."

Brown, Les on character
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"Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace."

Buddha on character
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"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."

Aristotle on character
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"Mercy is nobility's true badge."

Motto on mercy   

"Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God."

Hayden, B. R. on mercy
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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

Will, George F. on pessimism
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"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny."

Robertson, Frederick W. on mercy   

"God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them."

Aughey, John H. on god
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"People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him."

Bailey, Pearl on god
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on god
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"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."

Cowper, William on evil   

"Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy."

Fox on mercy   

"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers."

Erdos, Paul on mathematics
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

Russell, Bertrand on mathematics
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, poses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

Russell, Bertrand on mathematics
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"Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on mathematics
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"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."

Lebowitz, Fran on mathematics   

"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."

Szasz, Thomas on madness
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

Miller, Henry on madness
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God."

Butterworth, Eric on god
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"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on evil
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