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If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit.

—Thomas Aquinas in De Veritate

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Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

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Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

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He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes.

—James Clerk Maxwell

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And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.

—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk

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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

—Jimmy Carter

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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

—Stephen Covey

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply.

—Richard Rohr in The Universal Christ

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Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics.
Everything around you is numbers.

—Shakuntala Devi

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Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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