John Sterling Quotes
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People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.
Mac Anderson
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
William Shakespeare
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You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
William Shakespeare
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Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
Blaise Pascal
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
Vernon A. Walters
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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Paul Gauguin
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Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
John Sterling
