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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
Beautiful
Looking
Sunsets
Seem
Through
Almost
Were
Heaven
Gates
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
Les Brown
Success
Daily
Challenges
Key
Degree
Power
Whatever
Key To Success
Our
Way
Born
Come
Deal
Were
Discovering
Success Is
Certain
Certain Degree
Using
Innate
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
Hide
Made
Shade
Talents
Were
Use
Your
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
Jesus Christ
Fight
World
Jews
Would
Kingdom
Prevent
Another
Arrest
Were
Place
Now
Servants
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney Dangerfield
Me
Parents
Bath
Tell
Hated
Could
Toys
Were
Toaster
Radio
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson
Environmental
World
Insects
Rich
State
Back
Chaos
Collapse
Thousand
Would
Thousand Years
Vanish
Ten
Disappear
Environment
Equilibrium
Were
Years
Years Ago
Existed
Mankind
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
Atheist
Fate
Men
Nation
Believe
Other
Jews
More
Had
Most
Instrument
Blind
Still
Were
Than
Any
Done
Essential
Nations
Ordained
Hebrews
Eternal
Should
Believed
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
Great
Long
Duty
Small
Noble
Were
Accomplish
Chief
Task
Tasks
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
Joe Wurzelbacher
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Jews
Others
Seven
Unable
Were
Germany
Six
Established
Themselves
Million
Defend
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
World
Problems
Men
Possibly
Dream
Solved
Horizons
Never
Obvious
Limited
Were
Cannot
Realities
Who
Cynics
Whose
Things
Need
Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Jordan Peterson
You
Yourself
People
Yesterday
Other
Were
Who
Compare
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Education
Ignorance
People
School
Mother
College
Some People
Understanding
Intolerant
Unable
Must
Some
More
Said
Always
Educated
Go
Were
Intelligent
Than
Illiteracy
Professors
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright
Word
Would
Know
Misspelled
How
Were
Dictionary
Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack Obama
You
Opportunity
Matter
Nation
Everybody
Promise
Outcomes
Determine
Idea
Come
Like
Look
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Make
Were
End
Up
America
Essential
Where
Succeed
Should
Who
Now
Founded
Start
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
Life
People
Treat
Live
Entire
Entire Life
Only
True
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Opposite
Were
End
Itself
Stone
Happens
Next
Means
Your
Moment
Present
Present Moment
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness
Good
Day
People
Spring
Few
Only
Except
Could
Spoil
Always
Were
Itself
Very
The Only Thing
Thing
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat
Will
Become
Ought
Could
Individual
He
Were
Your
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'
Jose Rizal
Life
Work
Me
Generation
Writing
Will
Nighttime
Other
This Generation
Our
Books
Say
Would
Could
Write
Writings
Read
Understand
Am
Educated
Were
Hand
Burn
Which
Ages
Asleep
Grandparents
Whole
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
Think
Alive
Would
Longer
Accept
Vulnerability
Vulnerable
Were
Up
Children
Used
Grow
Grow Up
Grown-Up
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Charles de Lint
Life
Mysteries
Everything
Indeed
Strive
Would
Would-Be
Known
Without
Were
Dull
Left
Very
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
Great
Enemy
Words
Language
Long
Exhausted
Aims
Great Enemy
Out
Insincerity
Clear
Long Words
Between
Instinctively
Like
Idioms
Real
Were
Turns
Gap
Ink
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther
You
Wise
Old
Devil
Young
Since
Fellows
Were
Anything
Us
Who
Need
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
Today
People
Fate
Made
Worse
Ancestors
Enslaved
Those
Would
Born
Put
Instead
Terrible
Were
Been
Off
America
Africa
Them
Who
Descendants
Differently
Slavery
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
Vision
Men
First
Own
Nothing
Down
Took
Throughout
Roads
Steps
New
Armed
Were
Centuries
Who
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller
Experience
Joy
Wonderful
Dark
Overcome
Half
Lose
Valleys
Would
Something
Marvelous
Hour
Limitations
Were
Human
Rewarding
Human Experience
Richness
Traverse
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
You
Before
Born
Remain
Always
Occurred
Were
Child
Ignorant
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