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• The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Wise, Buddhist

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• I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

  Plato

  Art, Plato, Numbers

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• It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Cheating, Liars

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• God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Money, Kindness

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• One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

  Colleen Doran

  Death, Suicide, Dad

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• I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Fashion, Thinking

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.24, Penguin

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• Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Stress, Emotional

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.30, Penguin

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• Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

  Socrates

  Fruit, Flattery

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• Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

  Hart Pomerantz

  Education, School, Two

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• There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.

  Michael Beckwith

  Positive, Believe, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Sep 22, 2012

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• You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Meditation, Way

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• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  Austin O'Malley

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Two

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• Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

  Austin O'Malley

  Editors, Public Opinion, Politician

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• If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

  Dale E. Turner

  Technology, Political, Language

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• Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the morning light. That's why Luther said we must take heed then, to embrace...the love and kindness of God...[and to] daily excercise [our] faith therein, entertain no doubt of God's love and kindness.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Morning, Kindness

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• The truth is that there's more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Believe, Ideas

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• Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Compassion, Treasure

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• The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Morning, Prayer, Sunday

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• Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows.

  John J. Geddes

  Summer, Winter, Lines

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• Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Learning, School

  President Barack Obama's speech to American students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, www.whsv.com. September 7, 2009.

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• If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I'm sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean—but we'd still have to explain the land blip.

  Tom Wigley

  Ocean, Mean, Land

  "Climate Science and Candor". www.wsj.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.

  Charles S. Sanford, Jr.

  Real, Men, People

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• Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.

  Dave Kopel

  New York, Gun, Ideas

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• Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

  Ezra Levant

  Holocaust, Political, Freedom Of Speech

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• It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

  Cassia Leo

  Mistake, Character, Lessons

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