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Augustine of Hippo

(354 - 430)

Theologian, Philosopher

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.
Difficulty - Finding - Passion - Pure - Remedy - Remembering - Security - Sleeping
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
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Norman Vincent Peale

Clergyman, Author

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
America - God - Government - Liberty - Man - Problem - Security - Solution
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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.
Dependence - Difficulty
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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.
Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence
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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
Art - Dedication - Femininity - Fertility - Human - Industry - Intuition - Judging - Mankind - Masculinity - Organizing - Passion - Passive - Sexuality - Soul - Universal - Work
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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.
Flying - Sleeping - State
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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.
Citizenry - Finance - Finding - Leadership - Reject - Solution - State
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.
Accept - Effort - Inspiration - Life - People - Remembering
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Emily Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
Proof - Remembering - Wellness
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Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.
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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.
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Bryant H. McGill

Author, Public Speaker, Activist

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
Giving - Literature - Remembering
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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.
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Charles Babbage

Mathematician, Philosopher, Inventor

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.
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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
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Jack London

Public Servant, Novelist, Author

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.
Accept - Lie - Man - Passion - Pursuit - Value
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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
Difficulty
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Leonardo da Vinci

Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Polymath

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
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John Milton

Poet, Civil Servant

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
Sleeping
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