"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

God, Sky, Space, Stars

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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Leave the rest to the gods."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Being

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

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"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

Death

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

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"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

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"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."

Self

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

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