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«Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.»
«I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.»
«Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?»
«It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld | About: Mistakes | Keywords: correcting, critical, principal
«It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.»
«If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.»
«For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.»
«I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world»
«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.»
«Light (God's eldest daughter!) is a principal beauty in a building.»

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