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• Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

  Sonya Levien

  Way, Presses, Small Things

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  Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Soul, Ruins, Sitting

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

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• Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

  William Penn

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Queens, Women, Long

  "An Old-Fashioned Girl". Book by Louisa May Alcott, 1869.

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• I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

  Todd Barry

  Atlanta, Doors, Next

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• I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

  George Best

  Soccer, Missing, Ireland And The Irish

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• For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

  Lionel Blue

  Years, Republic, Favour

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• People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

  Bill Hicks

  America, People, United States

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  If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Differences

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• I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, May, Christ

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Vexation, Spleen

  Victoria Charles, Sun Tzu (2015). “Art of War”, p.73, Parkstone International

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• The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Heaven, Earth

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Vegetables

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• An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Equality

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• The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.

  Hugh Miller

  Future, Science, Men

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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• Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

  Jacques Monod

  Writing, Science, Destiny

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• I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, Science, Venture

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.66

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• To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.

  John Playfair

  Science, Together, Earth

  John Playfair, James George Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.20

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• Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

  Fritz Haber

  Kings, Teaching, Creativity

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• All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Animal, Two

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• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

  Blaise Pascal

  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Suffering, Helping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Bees And Honey, Honey Bee

  'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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