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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Prayer
Doris Lessing

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Better Counsel comes overnight.
Counsel
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Colleges and Universities
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Priorities
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
Laughter
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Literature is analysis after the event.
Literature
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Humankind
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Pearls mean tears.
Tears
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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Fame
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Science Fiction
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Superstition
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Faults
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
Heroes and Heroism
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun