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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: independence, intelligence, irritability, marriage, matrimony, recklessness
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, choice, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, greatness, hypocrisy, inequality, marriage, matrimony, men, misogyny, skills, social-norms, stereotypes, women
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    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
    “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
    ― Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
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    Ravi Zacharias
    “Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.”
    ― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
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    Jim Elliot
    “Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”
    ― Jim Elliot
    tags: christian, christian-life, inspirational, religion
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    John Piper
    “What is sin?
    It is the glory of God not honored.
    The holiness of God not reverenced.
    The greatness of God not admired.
    The power of God not praised.
    The truth of God not sought.
    The wisdom of God not esteemed.
    The beauty of God not treasured.
    The goodness of God not savored.
    The faithfulness of God not trusted.
    The commandments of God not obeyed.
    The justice of God not respected.
    The wrath of God not feared.
    The grace of God not cherished.
    The presence of God not prized.
    The person of God not loved.
    That is sin.”
    ― John Piper
    tags: christian, god, sin, what-is-sin
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    Joshua Harris
    “The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.”
    ― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
    tags: christ, christian, cross, god, inspirational, jesus, love, passion, romance, world
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
    world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: blame, blame-game, catholic, catholic-author, christian, gadfly, god, good, good-and-evil, goodness, human-nature, pain, satan, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, sufferings, thought-provoking
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: christian
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    “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
    ― Kevin Max
    tags: atheist, christian, christian-behavior, jesus, lifestyle
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    Paul Washer
    “Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable?”
    ― Paul Washer
    tags: christian, godly, holiness
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    “The only time you start at the top is when you’re digging a hole.”
    ― Sam Chand
    tags: digging, hole, start
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    Shon Mehta
    “Everybody dies, but some spend a whole life digging their grave.”
    ― Shon Mehta, The Timingila
    tags: anxiety, digging, fret, grave, shon-mehta, stress, timingila
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    A.W. Tozer
    “The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.”
    ― A.W. Tozer, The Divine Conquest
    tags: cross, discipleship
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    Mike Tyson
    “My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”
    ― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth
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    Sid Mittra
    “You are trapped by nothing more than a poor attitude”
    ― Sid Mittra, To Bee or Not to Bee: Winning Against All Odds
    tags: inspirational-quotes, midlife-crisis, motivational-quotes
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: humor
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
    "Yes," said Harry stiffly.
    "Yes, sir."
    "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
    The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Education isn't something you can finish.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: educational-philosophy
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
    2715 likes



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