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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, es

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams

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The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson

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I pray daily… for peace. – Paul ONeill

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Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! – Albert Einstein

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Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth. – Kak Sri, 2010

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