Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
Ephraim Mirvis
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THEO ENGELA There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
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GERMANY KENT I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thi...
FRED WILSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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MAX LUCADO If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER A spontaneous prayer makes differences and does changes.
TOBA BETA Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army...
TAO TE CHING I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a differe...
BILL RICHARDSON Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you ...
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JAMES C. DOBSON Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS Do. Then talk. In that order.
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R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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CAMILLE SWEENEY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentiona...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep...
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GARY F EVANS... The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"
"More or less." Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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FRANCINE RIVERS People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL People see what they want to see
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th...
APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring pe...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We fully uphold the right of free speech. But we understand the deep hurt and widespread indignation...
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have ...
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AYN RAND Change is an institution that we all have to get enrolled into if we are really willing to make a di...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL ... insanity is never reasonable.
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[Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING The superstition in which we grew up,
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GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which
the intention is so clearly evident...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
[Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist
Doch einzig und...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Borrowing is not much better than begging.
[Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
[Ger., Denn der Wille
Und nicht die Gabe macht ...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING While Fell was reposing himself in the hay,
A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;
But, al...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
[Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds
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GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity
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GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the...
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING