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Human Rights
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ~Justice William J. Brennan, 1982 You are a human...
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Forgiveness
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher Forgiveness is the fragrance...
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Qoutes Linea Eng
Linea reacta "If you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." Ed Lazowska "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." Paul Valery "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." Les Brown "When...
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Carpe Diem
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or...
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Emotions
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it....
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Yoga
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. ~Amy Weintraub Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young...
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Compliments
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~Kin Hubbard Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899 'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment. ~William...
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Humor
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly...
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Marriage
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ~Francis Bacon, Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." ~Herbert Spencer A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb A woman ought...
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Science
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954 I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm...
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Optimism
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil...
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Mind
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ~Eric Hoffer The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud All sorts of bodily diseases are produced...
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Self Respect
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~Jane Haddam Self-respect is the fruit of discipline... ~Abraham J. Heschel He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none...
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Freedom
The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints. ~Samuel Hendel He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for...
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Music
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of...
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Angels
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton,...
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Sex
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988 The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. ~William B. Yeats...
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Faith
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin...
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Poetry
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness...
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Religion
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~John Updike,...
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Courage
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else...
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Qoutes Linea Nederlands
"Over een ravijn geraken doe je niet met kleine sprongetjes." Dirk Sabbe "Gelooft u dat trouwen op een vrijdag ongeluk brengt? - Natuurlijk, waarom zou vrijdag een uitzondering zijn?" Wiet van Broeckhoven "Als je tegen mijn kar rijdt, dan helpt me dat...
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Carpe Diem II
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. ~Ben Irwin If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ~Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~Author unknown,...
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Love Linea Qoutes
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller .. May I add that Whoever said that thing about out of sight out of mind never knew true love. just kidding.. That is not love if you let her out of mind when she is out of sight. “Love...
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