"What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end."

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“If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.”

“What else is the help of medicine than love?”

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“Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.”

“What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.”

“As you talk, so is your heart.”

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"America is today without the necessary information upon which to proceed intelligently. Much of the propaganda essential to winning the war has made the ground look like a battlefield after a tank has…"

— Frances Kellor

Journalism1873–1952

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"Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know."

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion1863–1902

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"‘Where’s the next show?’, ‘Why don’t you make a Video?’, ‘Put on these beads and clothes and The Bling, Bling!’ Well, if that’s all it’s about than I think that I want out, of a career that won’t just…"

— Dawud Wharnsby

Music1972

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"There is no point in hiding that before the war we mostly learned to attack, and did not pay enough attention to such an important manoeuvre as retreat. Now we have paid for this. It turned out that t…"

— Hovhannes Bagramyan

Military1897–1982

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