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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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"A good friend is my nearest relation." »Thomas Fuller
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown." »Albert Einstein
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"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher
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"Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard
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"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." »Jacob Bigelow
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"I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau
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"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime." »Elsa Barker
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"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." »Marcel Proust
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"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." »Leo Tolstoy
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"There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman
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"Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now." »Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
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"I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry" »Unknown
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"Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play." »Jerry Coleman
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"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else." »Leonard Bernstein
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real." »Audrey Hepburn
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"If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won’t go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" »Julian the Apostate
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"The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back." »David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
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"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven." »Lucretius
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"It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex..." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"When we hold back on life, life holds us back." »Mary Manin Boggs
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"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far." »Erica Jong
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