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"I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith."
"Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together."
"People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that."
"Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone."
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."
"We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try."
"Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods."
"I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice."
"Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime."
"Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them."
"It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking."
"Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge"
"The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give."
"What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give."
"Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good."
"Whatever you are giving your attention to, already has a vibration of its own, and as you give your attention to it, you include its vibration in your vibration...and then your point of attraction is affected."
"Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding."
"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite."
"Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself."
