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People are usually more convinced by reasons they...

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about people

We conceal it from ourselves in vain we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about love, moment, man

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Quote by Ron Paul about democracy, liberty, country

Our problem, then, so easy to state, so hard to solve, is...

Our problem, then, so easy to state, so hard to solve, is how to bring about a creative peace and a security which will have a strong foundation.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about security, peace, state

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves...

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Quote by William Penn about pasion, mind

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

Quote by John Perkins about nation, tests, drugs, security, lie, culture, money, power, sex, day

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting...

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Quote by George Washington about marriage, events, happiness, life

Why did I write, because I found life unsatisfactory.

Why did I write, because I found life unsatisfactory.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, life

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, meetings, help, word, faith, contentment

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Quote by Walt Whitman about democracy, past, art, magic

At the Curie Institute, one of the highest goals for a physicist, I found myself empty. Beaten up by disbelief, I kept going because of inertia, which my soul rejected.

Quote by Ernesto Sabato about work, purpose, soul

I have always found women difficult. I don't really...

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Quote by Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland about woman, truth

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the...

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about poetry

Research to me is as important or more important than the...

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Quote by Leon Uris about literature, research, writing

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be...

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about heroism, state

When I started writing this, I found that I simply...

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Quote by Piers Anthony about literature, writing

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Quote by Sara Teasdale about sadness, joy, contentment

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have...

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Quote by Antonin Artaud about advice, culture, contentment

Where ever fear exists, courage can be found.

Where ever fear exists, courage can be found.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about courage, fear

No scale to balance, what's in my heart. No numbers to measure, nor even to chart. This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds. For only through time, can it's value be found.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about love, numbers, measure, value, heart, time

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