Charles Sheldon (Charles Monroe Sheldon) Quotes
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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She was poison in a pretty bottle.
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Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
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Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.
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The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
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Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
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I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
