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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.


Abraham Cahan

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ABRAHAM MASLOW If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as...
ABRAHAM MASLOW One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with auster...
ABRAHAM KUYPER When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPER In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we...
ABRAHAM FLEXNER This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEY His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the righ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEY God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEY I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, an...
ABRAHAM CLARK As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War ...
ABRAHAM CLARK There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
ABRAHAM BENRUBI It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
ABRAHAM BENRUBI Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, sh...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN