#able

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ↗

— Mark Twain

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There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#clear #commitment #enable #firm #ideas

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human. ↗

— Emma Watson

#human #i #i think #look #ones

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#fabulously #hard #leave #notes #superfluous

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. ↗

— David Brainerd

#beheld #deplorable #eye #father #god

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#before #beginning #colour #endless #gradations

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact