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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. Leo Rosten
Communication Think Extremists Them Means Agreeing
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy
Life Faith Man Sense Live Virtue Destroy Force Himself Does Whereby Which
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy
War Ugly Try Unjust Must Voice Within Stifle Wage Themselves Who Conscience
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease. Lynn Coady
Good Gender Confuse Manners Our Good Manners Ease Ensure Definition Strive Neutral Simply Feels Traditional Times Person Means Etiquette Company
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. Miguel de Cervantes
Cats Those Must Expect Scratched Play
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thought Made Enjoy Our Unless Would Immortal Above Given Never Days Beyond Were Hearts Lovely Them Us Meant Meant To Be Deep Creator
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. Paulo Coelho
Love Time Women Men Perception Sense Society Our All Women Somehow Something More Developed Part Developing Contemplation Accept Up Than Ended Sixth Sixth Sense Being Repressed Much Hard Many Hard Time Millennia
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. Paulo Coelho
You Creative World Changing Everybody Changing The World Potential Moment Express Start
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. Paulo Coelho
Life You Joy Picture Sign Would Would-Be Know Without Gospels Fake Were Contradictions Authenticity Full Fights Paint Lived Jesus
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have. Paulo Coelho
Buy Change Woman Happy People Car Satisfied Say People Say Prettiest Nobody House Always However Bigger Happy People Desire
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. Paulo Coelho
Confuse Humility Must One Thing About Absolutely Clear False False Modesty Modesty Us Let Us Thing Servility
Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries
Life Life Is A Jungle Zoo
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. Romain Rolland
Life Moving On Mistake Mistakes Never Makes Loved
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
Death Sunday Long Sunday Afternoon Immortality Know Afternoon Themselves Who Rainy Millions
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Thomas Hardy
Religion Man Object Main Him Get Heaven
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
Alone World Inquisition Poetry Had Him Said Verse Moved Galileo Might
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison
People Thought Other Deficient About Something Never Absorb Exclusion Looked Insult Always Person Pitiable Acts
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Toni Morrison
People Black Understanding Everybody Else Totally About Bear Brunt Annoyed Contempt Smiling Always Demons Suddenly Why
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. Toni Morrison
Responsibility Somebody Leader Take Being Being A Leader
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov
Mind Before Complacency State Only Shattered Retrospective Exists Being Ascertained
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away. Walter Kirn
Go Away Own Tend Con Blindness Go Get Quietly Just Artists Victims Ashamed Reason Away
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott
Truth Will Faithful Wreck Rusty Nail Placed Sway Compass Near
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Walter Scott
Nature You Fruit Will Spring Autumn Tree Unless Borne Look Blossoms
Follow your honest convictions and be strong. William Makepeace Thackeray
Strong Be Strong Convictions Follow Your Honest
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
You Own Universe Corner Only Self Improving Certain Your
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley
Life Nature People Consistency Consistent Only Dead Contrary
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