The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

H. R. Haweis

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

Buffalo Bill

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

Gary Ackerman

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Paul D. Boyer

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

George Eliot

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

John Stossel

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Sarah Schulman

Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Abraham Lincoln

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

There is never a traffic jam on the extra mile.

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