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Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
Umar
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May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
Umar
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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
Umar
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History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.
Ivan Panin
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.
Eva Herzigova
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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.
Ursula Vernon
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You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Anne Hutchinson
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An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning your living with it. One of the definitions of a professional is you can do some writing if you have to, even in the most extreme situations.
Michael Ventura
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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David R. Brower
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
Pat Oliphant
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
Anne Fadiman
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Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
Marcus Aurelius
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
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He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.
Anne Bradstreet
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
Anthony Trollope
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I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
Anna Quindlen
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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
Vance Havner
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