Strategically Placed Letters

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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One warm mother-kiss dried the little wet eyes and stilled the little troubled heart.

Jay Benson Hamilton

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Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994

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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Susanne K. Langer

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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

Buddha

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

Sara June Parker

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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

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Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault