Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
Quotes to Explore
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
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I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
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I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
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As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.
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It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
