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to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
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no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO I don't subscribe to the notion of convergence, ... I'm a big believer of divergence. GEORGE BELL Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... SHERRILYN KENYON Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't like being lied to. PATRICK WILSON
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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has r... ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers wh... ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin'... ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul... JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir? JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those bro... JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, e... JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Investing is the one sphere of life and activity where victory, security and success is always to th... JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES He was very incoherent and made irrational statements on scene. SGT. STEVE MAYNARD