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Feisal Abdul Rauf

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

Desire | Knowledge | Order |

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Ezra Taft Benson

In the providence of God, governments were intended to be the servants, not the masters of the people. This eternal truth needs to be emphasized and re-emphasized.

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Felix Adler

The moral order never is, but is ever becoming. It grows with our growth.

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Gustave Flaubert

The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.

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Italian Proverbs

Skip the enjoyment that you will regret.

Ideas | Right |

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Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Italian Proverbs

There goes more than one ass to market.

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Italian Proverbs

When wine enters modesty departs.

Ideas | People |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Italian Proverbs

Who troubles others has no rest himself.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

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Ivan Krastev

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief, that can rise to delight, that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return.

Ideas | Understanding |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just before his feet she gently chid with laughter sweet: 'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me! For fain thy dancing I would see!

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