François Mauriac
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EISENHOWER CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN PAT CONROY DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The power to feed properly every day for life is in the saying "Give us this day our daily bread", f... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) R.G. RISCH The park sustained them, the green harbor they preserved as the town extended itself outward, block ... COLSON WHITEHEAD I just loved the energy that coach brought to practice every day and the way she never gave up on us... CARA ENRIGHT CHRISTOPHER DAWSON ALDOUS HUXLEY RABINDRANATH TAGORE Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith unt... ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith unt... ARTHUR H. COMPTON CHARLIE PIERCE JAMES BRYCE JAMES BRYCE JAMES BRYCE JAMES BRYCE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER ABRAHAM LINCOLN EDWARD BELLAMY She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be respons... ANTHONY DOERR MARCUS AURELIUS ISRAELMORE AYIVOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN WINSTON CHURCHILL GEORGE HERBERT That is the beauty of reading a meaningful quote. Just as it is with the spirit of our hearts, somet... JASON VERSEY Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU JOHN STUART MILL
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I believed that I could go to the Super Bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and do all of those things... 
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on o... 
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to
know its pleasures, we must go to t... 
From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... 
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned an... 
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned an... 
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those ... 
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for t... 
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a ... 
Evil is not just a theory of paradox, but an actual entity that exists only for itself. From its eth... 
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteen... 
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli... 
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes a... 
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedd... 
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. 
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. 
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. 
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor... 
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the ... 
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis... 
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen... 
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ... 
Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread fo... 
Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon. 
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children. 
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be... 
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. 
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. 
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings wh... 
Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without f... 
I go to seek a Great Perhaps. 
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an... 
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. 
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. 
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. 