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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Comp... THOMAS HOBBES We will do anything in our power to bring the person or persons to justice, ... I believe we eventua... DAVID GEE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT What's your usual gig?" "Physical fitness coach. I find it rather humdrum. Your assignmen... JULIAN MAY I will find you. In the farthest corner, I will find you. MARY E. PEARSON They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more lea... GIORDANO BRUNO -Desiderata- Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may... MAX EHRMANN When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let ... PAUL MCCARTNEY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT What's the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? But the loneliness wil... ASPER BLURRY There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to rui... JOHN MCAFEE A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the socie... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. CARTER LINDBERG Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and Ame... PATRICK W. CORRIGAN Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself. BEN STEIN Let us be the joy to find the joy Let us be the love to find the love Let us be kind to fi... DEBASISH MRIDHA If love & music where to be persons,they will certainly be the very best of friends. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never wanted it to be an imposition, I am alone & will find my way alone. PUSHPA RANA Find the Lord, find the saints of the times, but also find the not canonized, simple persons who are... JOSEPH RATZINGER We had information about last week that Mullah Omar was somewhere in western Afghanistan ... in a mo... HAMID KARZAI Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, bu... PREM PRAKASH If it is important to you, then you will find a way. If not you'll find an excuse. MEIR EZRA I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names ... KAMAND KOJOURI It is hard to find places that are accessible for persons with disabilities. The place must be compl... ANN BEARD If death & life were to be persons,they will be the greatest enemies ever known. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; W... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same h... T.S. ELIOT They will not see marshals at 2:01 today attempting to take the boy by force. If we're compelled to ... JANET RENO Why Not You? Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? STEVE MARABOLI If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patri... ABHIJIT NASKAR Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to f... ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY God make one mysterious beautiful creature in the world name GIRL if you try to found mystery y... ONCAR PATCAR People love to do such things, attempting to degrade other individuals for their mistakes to fulfill... ADITI DUFARE So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through the galaxy and beyond. So lif... ASTRONOMER ROYAL SIR MARTIN REES To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o... LILY COLLINS Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse w... JONATHAN SWIFT To contend with persons or situations we find to be stressful is to survive.
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employ our artisans in printing, and... JOSEPH ADDISON To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Λαθρανθρωπία = το να συν~κατα~λέγεται λαθραῖα ἒ�... ALE3IA One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ... JACK KEROUAC ... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed... JOHN COUCH ADAMS Sleep! May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalyps... SANHITA BARUAH Living in a state of constant wistful despair, perhaps, will be my destiny, said the traveller. PREETI BHONSLE What is the Conscious leap? Conscious leap is a term that refers to a process of change.<... KATERINA KOSTAKI it took losing him to finally find myself. It took losing him AMANDA LOVELACE It should be expected that we will find wonder in a vast mountain landscape, but it is a more seriou... TRISTAN GOOLEY Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. MAX EHRMANN The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions t... VERA NAZARIAN New year, new life!" - The saying goes. It will be?! Often we place expectatio... 1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO And in August it will be fifty-two years together.” “Wow,” Oliver says. “That’s amazi... JENNIFER E. SMITH In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few... NENIA CAMPBELL Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in or... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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