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For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Apostle Paul

Romans 3:23

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 3:23).

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mulll

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Mull, Martin. Quoted in Detroit Free Press. 18 Feb. 1979.

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One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Lord Salisbury

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Lord Salisbury. Renfrew by-election speech. Oct. 1877, UK.

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Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 'twill be found upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.

Daniel Defoe

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Defoe, Daniel. The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr. 1701, pt. 1, I. 1.

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How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

Miguel de Unamuno

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De Unamuno, Miguel. The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples, translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch. Macmillan and Company, 1921, preface.

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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

The Winter Morning Walk

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 5.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 5.

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He who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." Aids to Reflection. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825, aphorism 25.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 9: Aids to Reflection, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2017.

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You gotta do what your heart tells you to do. Let me tell you somethin' right now. You're only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, once every ten years.

A Bronx Tale

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

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The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all,
I know immortal ones composed only of tears.

Alfred de Musset

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Musset, Alfred. "La nuit de mai [A Night In May]." Revue des Deux Mondes, 15 June 1835.

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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

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Stanley, Bessie A. "Success." Brown Book Magazine, c. 1905.

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to Arthur Charles Stanhope. 12 Oct. 1765.

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In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Anatole France

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France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Rutherford, Ernest. Quoted in Rutherford at Manchester, by J. B. Birks. Heywood and Company, 1962.

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The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Douglas MacArthur

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MacArthur, Douglas. Statement on aid to Great Britain. 16 Sept. 1940.

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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

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Getty, Jean Paul. How to Be Rich. Playboy Press, 1965.

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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Kwame Nkrumah

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Nkrumah, Kwame. "Motion of Destiny." Revolutionary Path. Panaf, 1973. Originally an address called "Motion of Destiny." Gold Coast National Assembly. 10 July 1953, Accra, Ghana.

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Selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis

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Day-Lewis, Cecil. "Walking Away." The Gate, and Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, I. 19.

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Stewart Brand

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Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T. Viking, 1987, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.

John Clare

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Clare, John. The Present is the Funeral of the Past. c. 1845, I. 1.

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Clare, John. "The Present is the Funeral of the Past." The Later Poems of John Clare. Oxford University Press, 1984, I. 1.

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