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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#against #almighty #always #brought #clock

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. ↗

— Will Durant

#gives #knowledge #only #philosophy #science

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#about #besides #gives #home #homework

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with. ↗

— John Hawkes

#been #briefly #certainly #falling #getting

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#around #barbara #carry #conversations #dolls

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#conflict #deal #drama #issues #lives

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#able #begin #birth #child #consume

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#even #family #forever #give #go

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fewest #human #individual #lives #people

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ↗

— Josephine Hart

#geography #landscape #lives #our #our lives