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"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." »Shakti Gawain
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"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." »Orson Scott Card
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"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity." »Vartan Gregorian
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"Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." »Ambrose Bierce
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"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." »George Orwell
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." »George Orwell, (attributed)
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"It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in complete faith that His Son, Jesus Christ, conquered sin and death on your behalf and for your salvation." »James L. Mathews
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"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems." »S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression." »Malcolm X
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"The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service." »Lord Billingsley
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest." »W. H. Auden
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest." »W. H. Auden
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"He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity." »The Talmud
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"Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says ‘Here are the rules,’ do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas." »Aldous Huxley
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"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas." »Aldous Huxley
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