Germaine Greer Quotes
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
Irving Fisher
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
Rabia Basri
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
J. C. Ryle
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
Alicia Keys
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
E. O. Wilson
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
Oscar Wilde
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
Oscar Wilde
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
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As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic
Jay-Z
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
Donald Miller
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He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
P. C. Cast
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"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.
Paul Auster
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I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.
Dan Carter
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These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
Plotinus
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer
