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destinies
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
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History
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«Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
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Marriage,
Soul
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destinies, everyday, everyday life, families, Fates, mysteries, timeless, weaving
«Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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Creativity,
Originality
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affecting, a million times, boundaries, compelling, destinies, millions, originality, palaces, profoundly, roots, roots of, societies, The Force, The Roots
«We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
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active, charge, design, destinies, living substance, look for, of our own, substance, substances, take charge
«Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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destinies, enduring, glorious, immortal, passing, perils, sublime, substance, The Perils of, the sublime
«By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Education
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adequate, adequate to, combat, combating, combats, destinies, educating, formed, lines, supreme, The State of the World
«Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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