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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."

"If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer."

"Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

"The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God."

"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."

"Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned."

"The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government."

"When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers."

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

"For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams."

"Self-determination is now recognized as a principle of legitimacy underlying modern international law."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large."

"We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences."

"It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love."

"Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen."

"On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering."

"Instead of getting a cross-sectional picture of the community at a particular point in time, I was dealing with a time sequence of interpersonal events."

"Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?"

"House of Incest: Exile from the Family" in Modernist Women's Literature on women of the Left Bank"

"There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time."

"Both genetic and archaeological proofs of intrusions into Europe from Russia are plentiful, but in India these are significantly missing."

"I am often asked when can you stop networking. I would say never – networking should be a lifelong activity."

"In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering."

"One of the best ways to economize in building is to economize on ugliness. ...Nothing can be greater service in avoiding ugliness than a knowledge of the principles of design."

"I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house."

"The Ecumenical Spirit and the Libertarian Movement" — Essay and review of books on De Cleyre by Jeff Riggenbach at Rational Review"

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

"Shortly after pithecanthropus erectus gained the ascendancy, he turned his attention to the higher-order abstractions."

"Because the universe was a cold, callous place. And they had just peered into the gulf separating the astronomically unlikely from the truly impossible."

"Well, Foley is responsible for it, and the voters in Florida, I guess, who elected him. Maybe they should have known better."

"When he was 15, his distressed mother dragged him to a lecture on healthful living being given by nutritionist Paul Bragg."

"It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man."

"If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender."

"The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.'"

"No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on."

"You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice."

"Every isolated determinate dynamic system, obeying unchanging laws, will ultimately develop some sort of organisms that are adapted to their environments."

"Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes."

"Technological systems are socially produced. Social production is culturally informed. The Internet is no exception."

"I'm from the city rich desire to live in. Glass on the floor from breaking out of this prison / prism."

"His pictures remind me of my own in the strength of their expression. I have a passionate love for Nolde and his art."

"That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about."

"For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness."

"Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries."

"I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going."

"The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements."

"Gradually he showed me everybody was going to help me in this...it was not a terrifying thing, but a great challenge."

"In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions."

"The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca."

"I call myself an extremist - extremely kind, extremely just, extremely merciful, extremely honest. What's wrong? The Qur'an tells me to be extremely honest. Now I cannot be partly honest!"

"However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today ."

"Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it."

"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck."

"If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge."

"In this branch of study exactness is an essential feature; and mathematical difficulties must not be shrunk from when the nature of the subject leads to them."

"Special Collections – F.W. Taylor Collection , Stevens Institute of Technology has an extensive collection at its library"

"Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform."

"Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world."

"Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier."

"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was."

"Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them..."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities."

"Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter."

"Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better."

"complete text in pdf of 'The life of J.M.W. Turner', Volume II, George Walter Thornbury; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862"

"Foregrounding, as I understand it, is prominence that is motivated"

"We are 12 billion light-years from the edge. That's a guess — no-one can ever say it's true, but I know that I will always be with you."

"Put shortly, and in the language of the man of the street, this means that God is good, that man is immortal, and that as we sow so we must reap."

"Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer"

"Our poor bodies have strength and resources that we learn to know only when we are in the gravest situations."

"Later, when F. was more and more from home, I painted more and more, my own individual life - also saving my nerves ."

"The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the proto­type of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants."