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Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found. Votes: 3

William Wordsworth

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Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. Votes: 3

Charles W. Pickering

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History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. Votes: 3

Orison Swett Marden

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We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good. Votes: 2

Robert Winston

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Oh, I am a prompt person! Votes: 1

Josh Hutcherson

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The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. Votes: 1

Adam Schiff

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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Votes: 1

Charles Simmons

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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. Votes: 1

Orison Swett Marden

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We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action. Votes: 1

Jerry Reinsdorf

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Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed. Votes: 1

Maurice Saatchi

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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. Votes: 1

Coventry Patmore

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Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. Votes: 1

Jurgen Habermas

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I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point. Votes: 1

Eli Broad

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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact. Votes: 1

C. Robert Kehler

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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was. Votes: 1

Rachel Cusk

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I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happen. Plans make me annoyed a little bit, personally. I'm not the most prompt, on-time person. Votes: 1

Maxwell

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I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution. Votes: 1

Donald Johanson

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Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. Votes: 1

Leon Askin

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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. Votes: 1

Augustus Hare

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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her. Votes: 1

Jung Chang

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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul. Votes: 1

Ignatius of Loyola

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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. Votes: 1

Maximilien Robespierre

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On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other. Votes: 1

James Howard Kunstler

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Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. Votes: 1

Twyla Tharp

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Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. Votes: 1

William Safire

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When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn. Votes: 1

Daniel Handler

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Use visual cues to prompt yourself to put away more. A photograph of the beach house where you and your husband can envision spending your retirement will remind you to bump up the contribution to your 401(k); a snapshot of your child in a college sweatshirt can encourage you to put more into a 529 college savings plan. Votes: 1

Jean Chatzky

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All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time. Votes: 1

Simon Winchester

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The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. Votes: 0

Hannah More

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Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. Votes: 0

Susanne Katherina Langer

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It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Proctor

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The first degree of humility is prompt obedience. Votes: 0

Benedict of Nursia

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Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible. Votes: 0

Maximilien Robespierre

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Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. Votes: 0

Maximilien Robespierre

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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... Votes: 0

Robert Genn

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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. Votes: 0

Maximilien Robespierre

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Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich

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Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings. Votes: 0

Stella Adler

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Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. Votes: 0

Diana Trilling

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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein. Votes: 0

Alexander Cockburn

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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53) Votes: 0

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. Votes: 0

Owen Feltham

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A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. Votes: 0

Morton Blackwell

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Your track record, and great achievements may prompt people to invest their resources such as time and money, not their heart. Votes: 0

Assegid Habtewold

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Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now. Votes: 0

Lauren Oliver

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For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. Votes: 0

John Kinsella

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Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes! Votes: 0

Hannah More

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[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them. Votes: 0

Roger Scruton

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Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation. Votes: 0

Saadi

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... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil! Votes: 0

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedÂotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls! Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment. Votes: 0

George Washington

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The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. Votes: 0

William Alcott

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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. Votes: 0

George Washington

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...history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs. Votes: 0

Christopher Kelly

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If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy. Votes: 0

Frank Chodorov

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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. Votes: 0

Warren E. Burger

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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment? Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will. Votes: 0

Homer

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God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. Votes: 0

John Milton

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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. Votes: 0

John Milton

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We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does. Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely. Votes: 0

Ronald Coase

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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away. Votes: 0

William James

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.... Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church. Votes: 0

Ignatius of Loyola

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Manager geben Anweisungen, die prompt ausgeführt werden. Politiker müssen sich demokratischen Entscheidungen unterwerfen, die manchmal elend lange dauern.

Rexrodt

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I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. âThis above all ...â

Kurt Vonnegut

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My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Es gibt Leute, die gut zahlen, die schlecht zahlen, Leute, die prompt zahlen, die nie zahlen, Leute, die schleppend zahlen, die bar zahlen, abzahlen, draufzahlen, heimzahlen - nur Leute, die gern zahlen, die gibt es nicht.

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

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Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

Antoine Lavoisier

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My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.

Karl Blossfeldt

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In Serbia's case, the unresolved accountability for the Bytyqi brothers massacre needs to be resolved. And we would urge you to give this matter prompt and immediate attention to bring those responsible to justice for this tragedy.

Ben Cardin

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The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

Mary Roach

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The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.

Peter Akinola

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He showed the words "chocolate cake" to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. "Guilt" was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: "celebration.

Michael Pollan

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Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

William James

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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).

Mary J. Miller

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God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

Anna Sewell

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The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means by which they are accomplished. God may concur in such acts, from motives, with ends, and in the use of means which are altogether most holy

James Petigru Boyce

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But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Alan Bennett

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I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.

Barack Obama

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Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

Charlotte Cotton

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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties â French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.

Frederick Rolfe

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There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend" An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.

Jean de La Fontaine

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As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.

Barbara Wentroble

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People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

Michael Copps

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The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.

George H. Smith

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