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«Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.»
Author: Eustace Budgell
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Friendship
| Keywords:
good and, habitual, inclination, persons, promote, promotes
«If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Belief
| Keywords:
beliefs, dogs, Go To Heaven, immortality, persons
«Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.»
«A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Juries and Judges,
Law and lawyers
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chosen, juries, jury, lawyer, persons, twelve
«As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.»
Author: Robert H. Schuller
(Author, Entrepreneur, Reformed Church Minister)
| About:
Uniqueness
| Keywords:
persons, unique, uniqueness
«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
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«If all persons knew what they said of each other there would not be four friends in the world»
«All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Actions, at last, key, key word, lie in, persons, puzzles, puzzling, straightway, The Last Man
«If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce»
«All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
compelled, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, institution, liberty, maintain, opinion, persons, religious, religious liberty, religious person, such institutions
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