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wisdom understanding intuition
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. Baruch Spinoza
wisdom power men
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand
wisdom giving forever
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. C. S. Lewis
wisdom grief yawning
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. C. S. Lewis
wisdom science discovery
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Charles Kettering
wisdom forever waiting
Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot. Baltasar Gracian
wisdom answers knows
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. Boethius
wisdom distance home
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there. Charles Spurgeon
wisdom book reading
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. Edwin Arlington Robinson
children educates fellow fifty highly last lose men normality perhaps themselves thus values
Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. R. Laing
children education ensure enter gradually great high indiana integrated prepared quality schools shame state system
Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K. Libby Doggett
children explore gives hope imagination sets stretched telling worlds
I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder. Jenny Nimmo
children county people problem question serious signing skip various
This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it. Jack Horn
children stupid believe
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing. Barbara Mertz
children ugly monkeys
I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. Augusten Burroughs
children crazy writing
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! Arthur Miller
children husband hair
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband. Ayelet Waldman
children growing-up night
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand
names suffering firsts
What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated. Arthur Adamov
names people goes-on
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. Jamie Farr
names substance matter
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. Asa Gray
names wonderland strange
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family. Brie Larson
names sexism dear
Dear me no Dears, Sir ... Aphra Behn
names hollywood thirty
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht
names evil intellectual
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism. Eliphas Levi
names water soul
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone! Clive Barker
names trying chipotle
If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle Ansel Elgort