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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

Small, Same, Whole

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson

Themselves, While, Mankind

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Success, Positive, Attitude

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Rock, Jesus, Popular

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Daily, Nothing

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Fear, Wish

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

Women, Men, History

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Moment, Theory

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Power, Strength

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

Life, Character, Help

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Reason, Oppression

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis

Age, Great, Old

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

Everything, Philosophy, Moral

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics, Mean, Sometimes

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Himself, Feels

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell

God, Simple, Thought

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II

Family, Live, Whole

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Greatest, Sense, Wanted

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

Nothing, Cannot, Start

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, May, Two

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Mind, Event

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Important, Human, Soul

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi

Die, Cause, Prepared

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Time, Fear, Hate

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
James Russell Lowell

God, Morning, Done

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Through

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Long, Battle

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Alcohol, Endure

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