"Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child."
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"Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want."
"A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
"The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom."
"We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body."
"The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head."
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."
"Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both."
"When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish."
"Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom"
"I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times."
"I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background."
"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom."
"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom."
"A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work."
"I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom."
"There’s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth."
"When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches."
"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected."
"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world."