Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia
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The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though, so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.
Jenny Lawson
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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
Chief Seattle
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Democracy fascinates me.
Lee H. Hamilton
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
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To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.
Diego Maradona
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Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
Naomi Klein
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When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.
Gabriella Wilde
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Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.
Anthony Robbins
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Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect.
Neil Peart
Rush
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The measure of love is love without measure.
Bernard of Clairvaux