Alfred the Great Quotes
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
Alfred the Great
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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
Edith Schaeffer
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
Keanu Reeves
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
Angelina Jolie
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If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live
Pablo Neruda
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...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad
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Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
Og Mandino
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.
Sarah Addison Allen
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.
Wilhelm II
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Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
