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Sage | Source | Quote |
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A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” |
A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’ |
A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.” |
A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.” |
A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “ 'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.' ” |
A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | “ 'Oh Tigger, where are your manners?' 'I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.' ” |
Aacharya Haribhadra Suri | Perhaps the teaching is one, but there are various people who hear it. On account of the inconceivable merit it bestows, it shines forth in various ways. | |
Abdul Sattar Edhi | Whereas the entire meaning of the Quran must easily be interpreted by the lives of Muslims, Islam's followers abandoned its essence. | |
Abdul Sattar Edhi | People have become educated, but have yet to become human. | |
Abdul Sattar Edhi | My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world. | |
Abigail Adams | I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. | |
Abigail Adams | When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart, between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and tests? | |
Abigail Adams | Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. | |
Abigail Adams | If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation." | |
Abigail Adams | I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' | |
Abigail Adams | We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. | |
Abigail Adams | Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. | |
Abigail Adams | Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. | |
Abigail Adams | A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. | |
Abigail Adams | I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. |