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#1

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
― Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

tags: rip-van-winkle

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“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#3

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

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#4

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#5

“Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers

tags: christianity, god, grace, humility, infinity, striving, thankfulness

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#6

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

tags: community, death, isolation, mankind

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#7

“God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.”
― Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology: Volume 1: The Triune God

tags: christianity, egypt, god, israel, jesus, resurrection

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#8

“In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

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#9

“The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.”
― Pope Francis

tags: inspirational

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#10

“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it as it is — as a group of men of genius. We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.”
― Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste: How to Form It

tags: genius, hindsight, history, literature, mediocrity, perspective, time

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#11

“Variety is not the spice, but the very stuff of life.”
― Christopher Burney, Solitary Confinement

tags: boredom, isolation, life, prison, spice, variety

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#12

“If only Karl had made Capital, instead of just writing about it.”
― Henriette Marx

tags: capital, communism, economics, humor, jokes, marxism, money, motherhood, work, writing

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#13

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#14

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: governing, government, law

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#15

“We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen; we need more of the things that are unseen”
― Calvin Coolidge

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#16

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
― Calvin Coolidge

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#17

“No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
― Calvin Coolidge

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#18

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: deity, instrument, prosperity, tools, worship

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#19

“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

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#20

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: fiscal-conservatism

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#21

“The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.”
― Calvin Coolidge

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#22

“There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

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#23

“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.”
― Calvin Coolidge

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#24

“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: calvin-coolidge, troubles

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#25

“Any man who has been placed in the White House cannot feel that it is the result of his own exertions or his own merit. Some power outside and beyond him becomes manifest through him. As he contemplates the workings of his office, he comes to realize with an increasing sense of humility that he is but an instrument in the hands of God.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

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#26

“It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

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#27

“Laws are insufficient to endow a nation with righteousness.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: 1923, albany, law, righteousness, vice-president

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#28

“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been the minding of my own business.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: achievement, government, minding-your-own-business, president, press-conference

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#29

“There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Price of Freedom

tags: character, destruction, success

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#30

“Destructive criticism is always easy because, despite some campaign oratory, some of us are not yet perfect.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Have Faith In Massachusetts

tags: criticism, humor, perfection, political-campaigns, rhetoric

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