Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
Albert Einstein
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
Oliver Hardy
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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
Ohtaka Shinobu
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
John Jacob Astor
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
Abraham Lincoln
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;
Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships financial overseers and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.
Tertullian
