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"The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces." D.H. Lawrence Submitted by Quonation |Category: Shame Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer ... something...

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason." Norman Cousins Submitted by Quonation |Category: Faith Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country." Norman Cousins Submitted by Quonation |Category: Business Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "War is...

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." Michelangelo Submitted by Quonation |Category: Faith Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "I live and love in God's peculiar light." Michelangelo Submitted by Quonation |Category: Faith Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set...

"To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion." George Berkeley Submitted by...

"In all things there is a law of cycles." Publius Cornelius Tacitus Submitted by Quonation |Category: General Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger." Publius Cornelius Tacitus Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courage Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "All things atrocious and shameless flock...

"To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous." William Hazlitt Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He...

"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not...

"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." John...

"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share,...

"There is a good side to every situation." David J. Schwartz Submitted by Quonation |Category: General Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." David J. Schwartz Submitted by Quonation |Category: Circumstance Vote...