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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. – William James	added by anonymous 14 years ago
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. – Mother Teresa	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. – Arnold Palmer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. – Frank Herbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. – Sydney Harris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. – Maya Angelou	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. – Cyril Connolly	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. – Isaac Bashevis Singer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. – Erma Bombeck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities. – Jose Ortega y Gasset	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. – George Frost Kennan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine – Abraham Kuyper	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil we just see no point in bothering to spread good. – Richard M. Mathews	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. – David McIntosh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. – Claiborne Pell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. – May Sarton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying. – Dr. Robert Schuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. – Laurence Sterne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. – Elie Wiesel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. – Colette	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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