God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
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GARY F EVANS... All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
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WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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ALBERT CAMUS The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
SIGMUND FREUD For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Why be an ostrich?
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RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
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WERNER BOTHA My Life is boring without God
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That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glitt...
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed....
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A.J. AYER Only God is good."
"We can make good works,
We can be called good folks
We can ...
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JEANETTE CORON Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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APURVA GAGLANI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
RYAN LEONARD The real question is why is there “being”? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.
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HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.
FRANçOIS PETIT Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 There is no situation so chaotic that God ca...
BISHOP HANDLEY MOULE Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hat...
JOHN OWEN Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagemen...
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ANUJ SOMANY Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Even God cannot change the past.
AGATHON Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL To attach to a goal is to mentally protect it because of a negative story running at the back of you...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Existence is the only reality for the self. As water cannot be separated from wetness, so you, the s...
SCIENCE OF IDENTITY FOUNDATION- JAGAD GURU CHRIS BUTLER Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He...
PHILIP YANCEY Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away ...
MARGARET MITCHELL If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so ...
BLAISE PASCAL God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
ALBERT EINSTEIN And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escape...
BIBLE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD To doubt the existence of God is the greatest delusion.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa...
F. SIONIL JOSE Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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GEORGE HARRISON It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect t...
ROBERT PURVIS It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect th...
ROBERT PURVIS ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras...
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AYN RAND Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
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JOHN C. MAXWELL Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
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E. J. HOBSBAWM Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies ...
ERIC HOBSBAWM Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The river of knowledge has no depth.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mo...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Conscience: "con"-"science"; that which science cannot explain.
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH When you feel at peace with your troubles, they turn into lessons and ladders to help you climb to t...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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