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"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."	Adel Bestavros
"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."	Adela Rogers St. Johns
"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."	Aesop
"Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket."	Alan Marshall Beck
"What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him."	Alan Marshall Beck
"A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!"	Alan Marshall Beck
"All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences."	Albert Einstein
"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."	Albert Einstein
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."	Albert Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."	Albert Einstein
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."	Albert Einstein
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Albert Einstein
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."	Albert Einstein
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."	Alfred Bernhard Nobel
"Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)"	Alighieri Dante
"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."	Allan K. Chalmers
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."	Anais Nin
"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."	Ann Landers
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Dean Koontz	Demosthenes	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Earl Nightingale	Edward Kennedy	Edward Morgan Forster
Ed Lindeman	Elaine Agather	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emil Brunner	Epictetus	Epicurus
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Ernest Miller Hemingway	Fawn M. Brodie	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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F(rancis) Scott	Gaius Julius Caesar	George Eliot
George Frederick Handel	George Herbert	George Herbert Walker Bush
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Giordano Bruno
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Javan	Jean Kerr	Jerry Coleman
Jesse Louis Jackson	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johathan Edwards	John Anthony Ciardi	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gay	John Johnson	John Perry Barlow
John Quincy Adams	Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad
Joseph Joubert	Josh Billings	Juvenal
J. Russel Lynes	Kahlil Gibran	Kalidasa
Karen Lamb	Katherine Mansfield	Ken Lancaster
Lady Nancy Astor	Laertius Diogenes	Learned Hand
Lillian Hellman	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Madeleine L'Engle
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Martin Luther	Mary Catherine Bateson
Mignon McLaughlin	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Napolean Bonaparte
Napoleon I	Niccolo Machiavelli	Nicholas Boileau
Nigel Kneale	Noel Coward	Norman Cousins
Ogden Nash	Oliver Goldsmith	Oliver Herford
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Oriana Fallaci
Orison Swett Marden	Patrice Gifford	Patrick Henry
Peter F(erdinand) Drucker	Pierre Corneille	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Kiner	Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Dawkins
Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert
Robert Charles Benchley	Robert Edward Lee	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Green Ingersoll	Rose Elizabeth Bird	Saint Augustine
Adela Rogers St. Johns	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sextus Julius Frontinus
Sid Ceaser	Sigmund Freud	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaiah Berlin	Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir John Lubbock
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Susanna Moodie	Swedish Carol
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Thomas Arnold	Thomas Edward Bodett	Thomas Mann
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