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suicide loss gambling
Charles Caleb Colton The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
suicide spiritual passion
Charles Spurgeon Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
suicide commitment mind
Alan Watts Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
suicide moving heart
Al Alvarez When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
suicide house enemy
Chris Chocola Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
suicide hands flattery
Edward Gibbon Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.
suicide age criminals
Edward Gibbon The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.
suicide book reading
Ed Byrne No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
morning rain night
Charles Dickens Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.
morning stars moon
Charles Dickens The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.
morning light long-ago
Charles Dickens I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
morning air giving
Charles Dickens The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.
morning halloween night
Charles Dickens I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
morning life-and-love up-early
Charles Dickens Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.
morning sunday waiting
Charles Stanley On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
morning heart years
Alan Watts The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
morning thinking looks
Alan Watts To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.
science uniforms taste
Charles Caleb Colton In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
science disorder cures
Charles Caleb Colton No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
science mind cost
Charles Caleb Colton The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
science tolerance religion
Alan Watts We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.
science law statistics
Edward Gibbon The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
science geometry
David Hilbert Geometry is the most complete science.
science mind problem
David Hilbert He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
science past imagination
David Hume We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.
science intelligent winning
Astro Teller Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.