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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell

Great, Forward, Whole

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

Late, Proverb, Prefer

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean

Beauty, Nature, Able

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon

Change, Chaos, Interest

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Give, Through

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore de Balzac

Peace, Science, Political

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac

Society, Hard, Perfect

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
Honore de Balzac

Nothing, Word, Lovers

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Business, Artists

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.
James Van Der Beek

Insecurity, Everyone, Fact

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Politics, Hope, Failure

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

Best, End, Find

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer

Pain, Help, Others

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Ann Landers

Success, Two, Lord

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi

Mind, Perfect, Put

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Enemy, Nothing, Soul

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

Justice, Put, Often

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

Life, Human, Start

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe

Art, Reality, Him

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

Joy, Knows, Obstacles

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

Love, Jealousy, Alive

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
Matthew Henry

Life, Heart, Here

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus Hare

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Love, Light, Her

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

Truth, Knowledge, Wise

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Mind, Moral

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

Time, Pain, Passion

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Great, Passion, Fame

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

Business, Person, Plan

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham

Age, Different, Old

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