Brigit of Kildare Quotes
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
Karen Hughes
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
Kip Thorne
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I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
E. L. Konigsburg
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
Frank Church
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
John Metcalf
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
William Cowper
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Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
M. King Hubbert
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
William Hazlitt
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How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
Brigit of Kildare