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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

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The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. ↗

— Dean Stanley

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Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. ↗

— Vissarion Belinsky

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