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"A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness." »Seneca
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"The salvation of the lost is not best accomplished by great popular campaigns, conducted by a small minority of specialists in public evangelism, but by the godly, honest witness of believers individually. It is pure irresponsibility to leave the evangelization of the lost to the 'experts,' as many are doing today. God would have every believer do his part to win the lost to Christ by prayer, personal witness and sincere godliness." »Cornelius Stam
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"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." »Ken Keys
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"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." »Carl Sagan
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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." »Napoleon
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"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent." »John Andrew Holmes
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"Words of blame from those who are hostile to a great man cannot injure him. The moon is not hurt when barked at by a dog." »Arabic Proverb
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"Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)" »Horace
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"The silent bear no witness against themselves." »Aldous Huxley
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"witness at all times. If necessary, use words." »St. Francis of Assissi
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"Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage." »Samuel S. Janus
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness." »Danish proverb
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness" »William Makepeace Thackeray
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"The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it." »Michael Howard, The Observer (1980)
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"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness." »Margaret Miller
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"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." »Polybius
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington
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"The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." »Cicero
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." »Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
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"God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen." »Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer
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"He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision." »Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
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"To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." »Jesus
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"Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations." »Thomas Huxley
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"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." »Francis Bacon
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