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wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him. Thomas Merton
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau
wisdom men effort
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
wisdom hands monsters
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. Victor Hugo
wisdom verbs
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. Victor Hugo
wisdom flower suffering
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. Victor Hugo
wisdom children keeping-secrets
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. Victor Hugo
wisdom men animal
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild. Andy Johnson
people though
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. Lois Lowry
people sucked wealth
Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia, Robin Cook
people pursue socially societies tech
Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations. Nick Hanauer
people portray written
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much. Harvey Pekar
people poor poverty
Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people Don Herold
people perhaps remember voice
Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it. Yusuf Islam
people perhaps
Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,' Jeb Bush
people position
Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it, M. Wolfe
easier fewer imagining produce simply writers
Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped. Sarah Hall
easier information people visualize
We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions, Bill Gates
easier game minor thinking younger
It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls. Megan Ronhovde