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«If we were nothing here, at least we were children of God. At some far-off point in time, all these things would be rectified and we would get our golden slippers.»
Author: Calvin Marshall
| About:
God,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Children of God, far-off, point in time, rectified, rectifies, rectify, slipper, slippers
«If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Achievement,
Fear,
Mankind
| Keywords:
common denominator, denominator, denominators, lowest, mad, probe, probed, probes, probing, ultimately
«If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.»
«If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Devil,
Mankind
| Keywords:
does not exist, image, likeness, likenesses, the Devil
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
| Keywords:
arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.»
«Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.»
«In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.»
«Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
as to, impossible, indeed, wishes
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