Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
Frances Mayes
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar Mitchell
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
Samuel Beckett
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
Camille Paglia
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Orson Scott Card
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Jack Vance
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I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.
Jehane Noujaim
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Ben Jonson
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.
Wallace Stevens
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The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.
David Jeremiah
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l-Bahá