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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

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Euripedes NULL

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

Learning | Past | Youth | Youth |

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Euripedes NULL

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

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Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

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Eustace Budgell

We see by these instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards; and that a barber was not then allowed to make those depredations on the faces of the learned which have been permitted him of late years.

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Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

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Evelyn Underhill

Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

Means | Present |

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Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points, and laid a field of mines across all but a few well-trodden paths, so that, more often than not, we can only signal to one another from either side of the tangle of wire.

Day | Present | Will | Value |

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Evelyn Underhill

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

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Evelyn Underhill

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Gratitude | Present | Receive |

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Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed."

Future | Past | Present |

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Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Day | Heart | Music | Present |

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Evelyn Underhill

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

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Ezra Taft Benson

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

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Ezra Taft Benson

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

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Ezra Taft Benson

We must return to a love and respect for the basic spiritual concepts upon which this nation has been established. We must study the Constitution and the writings of the founding fathers.

Lord | Present | Will |

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Faith Popcorn, born Faith Plotkin

American is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy Â– how we buy it Â– weÂ’ll change who we are.

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Felix Adler

Gladness, in some instances, springs from a natural buoyancy of temperament, and is quite consistent with shallowness and superficiality of character. In other cases it is coincident with the swift flow of the currents of the blood, and ceases when the stream flows more slowly and begins to stagnate. Or it is due to gifts which an exceptional good fortune showers into the laps of favoured mortals. Gladness of this sort comes with happiness and departs with it.

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Ezra Taft Benson

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any earthly possession. As a United States citizen I believe it is guaranteed in our heaven-inspired Constitution.

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