Excerpts of Citations
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
~Winston Churchill
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
~Winston Churchill
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
~Winston Churchill
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
~Winston Churchill
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitas.
(Plurality should not be posited without necessity.)~William of Ockham
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the
necessities.~Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
~Kahlil Gibran
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As God said to Adam on one of those favonian edenic days, "Pick a bone, any bone."
~Norah Labiner
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An open mind is not a mind devoid of opinion but one that is able to change opinion in the face of new evidence.
~Hugh Nibley
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When things that are of the greatest importance are passed over by the weak-minded men without even a thought, I want to see truth in all its bearings and hug it to my bosom. I believe all that God...
~Joseph Smith
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Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.
~Joseph Smith
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When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were pres...
~Joseph Smith
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You are not as yet brought into as trying circumstances as were the ancient Prophets and Apostles. Call to mind Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Jeremiah, Paul, Stephen, and many others, too nume...
~Joseph Smith
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We know not what we shall be called to pass through before Zion is delivered and established; therefore, we have great need to live near to God, and always be in strict obedience to all His command...
~Joseph Smith
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We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to t...
~Joseph Smith