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  • Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
        Luisa Sigea   Best?
  • I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
        Natalie Goldberg   Best?
  • There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
        James Thurber   Best?
  • If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
        Sharon Salzberg   Best?
  • There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
        George Washington   Best?
  • The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
        William James   Best?
  • Tell Wind and Fire where to stop but don't tell me.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything -- give him back something broken.
        Stephen R. Donaldson   Best?
  • I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
        Janet Reno   Best?
  • We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
        Shana Alexander   Best?
  • A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
        Madeleine L'Engle   Best?
  • I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
        M.C. Escher   Best?
  • To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
        Thomas Paine   Best?
  • The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
        Baron Manfred von Richthofen   Best?
  • 1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
        Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib   Best?
  • She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.
        Henry James   Best?
  • Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
        Spiro T. Agnew   Best?
  • It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...
        Lyndon B. Johnson   Best?
  • It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
        Christopher Hampton   Best?
  • I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.
        Ian Pattison   Best?
  • It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
        Thomas Keneally   Best?
  • The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
        Peter McWilliams   Best?
  • I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken — the choosing was not. Just keep moving on...
        Stephen Sondheim   Best?
  • Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm
        Robert Burns   Best?
  • How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.
        Leopold von Sacher-Masoch   Best?
  • Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
        William Penn   Best?
  • Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
        Will Durant   Best?
  • The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
        Abbe' D'Allanival   Best?
  • Blow, blow, thou winter wind
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
        Karl Kraus   Best?
  • Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
        Saint Thomas Aquinas   Best?
  • Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
        Thomas H. Huxley   Best?
  • No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
        Plutarch   Best?
  • How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
        Jacques Bossuet   Best?
  • I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
        Titus Livius   Best?

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