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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. – Washington Irving

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

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You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. – Buddha

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. – Amy Carmichael

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A barrier is of ideas, not of things. – Mark Caine

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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. – Bahaullah

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. – William James

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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. – Jon Meacham

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