"Important principles may and must be flexible."

Lincoln, Abraham on principles   

"The object of science is the universal that contains many particulars; the object of art is the particular that contains the universal."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on science   

"Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions."

Spencer, Herbert on   

"War strengthens the central power and subordinates all interests to those of the state. Progress depends on the cessation of war. "

Spencer, Herbert on   

"As capital become international, international peace becomes a necessity."

Spencer, Herbert on capital   

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

Marley, Bob on hurt
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"I confidently expect that the present generation will see Unitarianism become the general religion of the United States."

Jefferson, Thomas on unitarian   

"Reward direction, not perfection."

Krumboltz, J. D. on   

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

Ginnott, Haim on children   

"Success makes a fool seem wise."

Bohn, H.G. on   

"Write injuries in sand, but benefits in marble. "

Unknown on injuries   

"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on death
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"He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know."

Lao-Tzu on know
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" I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts (1949 - ) "

Handey, Jack on cynical
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"YOU WILL ONLY BECOME WHAT YOU ARE BECOMING RIGHT NOW. Though you cannot go back and make a brand new start, my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end. "

Maxwell, John C. on art
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"Do not despise the bottom rings in your ascent to greatness. "

yourdailymotivation.com on greatness   

"Everything is still in the process of being created. There is no creation that has reached its completion."

Hicks, Esther on creation   

"Glory be to God for dappled things. For skies of couple-color as a brindles cow. For roso-moles that all in stipple upon trout that swim. Fresh fire-coal chestnut falls; finches' wings. Landscape plotted and pieced--fold fallow and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on dappled   

"And for all this, nature is never spent. There lives the dearest freshness deep down things. And though the last nights off the black West went/Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward , springs--/Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and Ah! bright wings."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on   

"The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shook foil. It gathers to greatness like ooze of oil. Crushed."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on   

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on spring   

"All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past changed: Praise Him."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on   

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out he hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott on   

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Geisel, Theodor (Dr Seuss) on be
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"With men and women, does you believe that men should marry only one woman? Does you believe in mahogany?"

Ali G. on monogamy   

"Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships. "

Ali G. on sex   

"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."

Wagner, Jane on somebody   

"My dear, when anything touches or enters your body, never say it is not God, for He and I are just trying to get close to you.God and I are rushing from every corner of existence, needing to say, "We are yours"."

Hafiz on   

"Many people never really grow up; they just learn how to act in public. "

White, Bryan on grow up   

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on   

"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

Franklin, Benjamin on poor   

"Lying in a campaign is a crime against democracy."

Garfield, Bob on lying   

"We have evolved (or devolved, I guess) into a “culture that thrives on the false principle that ‘all opinions are equal,’ even those without a shred of factual data, documentation, or reasoned methodology."

trent, brian on opinion   

"Virtue is doing great things while maintaining a very small sense of self as the doer. It is accumulating merit without attracting attention to oneself... As soon as pride overwhelms us, the merit of our meditation and good deeds is drained away."

buddhadharma.com on virtue   

"Some characteristics of compulsiveness are…virtues. Sociologists have speculated that compulsiveness in the human species survived because it was a competitive advantage our ancestors' tribes to contain one or two members who were responsible and vigilant in the extreme."

Kramer, Peter on compulsiveness   

"Anger keeps us from hearing properly."

Gelleh on   

"Make peace with your past so it won't screw up your future."

Brett, Regina on the past   

"The sun that shines across the sea, the wind that whispers in the tree, the lark that carols in the sky, the fleecy clouds a-sailing by. O, I'm as rich as rich can be, for all these things belong to me. The raindrops which refresh the earth, the springtime mantle of rebirth, the summer days when all things grow, the autumn mist and winter snow, O I'm as rich as rich can be, for all these things belong to me. The task well done, the fun of play, the wise who guide me on my way, the balm of sleep when each day ends, the joy of family and friends, O, I'm as rich as rich can be, for all these things belong to me. "

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"We have wintered enough, mourned enough, oppressed ourselves enough. Our souls are too long cold and buried, our dreams all but forgotten, our hopes unheard…We awaken to the power so abundant, so holy, that returns each year through sun and sky. We will find our hearts again, and our good spirits. We will love, and believe, and give and wonder, and feel again the eternal powers. The flow of life moves ever onward through one faithful spring, and another, and now another. May we be forever grateful."

Rzepka, Jane on grateful