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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.


Barry O'Farrell
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.


John McCain
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
Bruce Springsteen
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.


John Kenneth Galbraith
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.


John Ruskin
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I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.


Miranda Raison
No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.
Alan Moore
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.


John Mortimer
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
Elaine Pagels
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.


John Wooden
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.


John Maynard Keynes
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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
John Tillotson
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There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.


John Prescott
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I auditioned for 'Jake in Progress,' and I was nervous because I had a big crush on John Stamos. I was totally thrown off and couldn't remember my lines.
Mircea Monroe
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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
Ella Maillart
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry Pratchett
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.


Patrick Marber
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