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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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"Get up, stand up stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight." »Bob Marley
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"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends." »J. K. Rowling
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"When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else" »George Stanley McGovern
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"We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames." »Unknown
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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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"Life without a friend is death without a witness." »Danish proverb
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"Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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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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"Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win" »Henry C. Blinn
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"Those who stand strong will stand forever." »Joshua D. Clark
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"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness." »Margaret Miller
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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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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." »John W. Gardner
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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands." »The Book of the Dead
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"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach." »Woodrow Wilson
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"Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . ." »Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
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