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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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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The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
