How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTo gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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I’m looking to prove myself and earn that respect in the ring.
RYAN GARCIA -
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II -
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.
TUPAC SHAKUR -
I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.
BETTY CHURCHER -
I feel an army in my fist.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
EMILE DURKHEIM -
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL -
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPER -
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN -
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
I ain’t want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don’t want anybody to kind of look at me like that.
YOUNG THUG -
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.
KARL RAHNER -
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
BOB BLACK