#rely

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works. ↗

— Francis Asbury

#did #jesus #jesus christ #our #rely

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#done #entirely #i #learned #naked

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. ↗

— George P. Baker

#entirely #given #great #however #independent

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. ↗

— Richard Bach

#grow #grow up #members #rarely #roof

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#fat #guns #makes #merely #powerful

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ↗

— George Balanchine

#beautiful #female #flowers #garden #gardener

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inexorable #life #limits #mysterious #need

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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