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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. ↗

— Stuart Symington

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It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. ↗

— Ice T

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In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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