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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them  (Upon Quotes) Women equitable, logical, and utterly just! Mercy upon us! If they were, population would cease, the world would be a howling wilderness  (Upon Quotes) It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live  (Upon Quotes) I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can’t have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good  (Upon Quotes) And lo! In a flash of crimson splendor, with blazing scarlet clouds running before his chariot, and heralding his majestic approach, God’s sun rises upon the world  (Upon Quotes) I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them  (Upon Quotes) I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them  (Upon Quotes) I am tired of looking on what is, one might as well see beauty never more, as look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired  (Upon Quotes) Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself  (Upon Quotes) It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over  (Upon Quotes) And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene, the leafy mind, that long was tightly furled, will turn its private substance into green, and young shoots spread upon our inner world  (Upon Quotes) Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem - save that’s green and wooden - I come, my sweet, to sing to you  (Upon Quotes) The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless - unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew  (Upon Quotes) That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon  (Upon Quotes) It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all  (Upon Quotes) I never had a slice of bread, particularly large and wide, that did not fall upon the floor, and always on the buttered side  (Upon Quotes) Strange... A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!  (Upon Quotes) Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God  (Upon Quotes) The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does  (Upon Quotes) There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again  (Upon Quotes) The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best  (Upon Quotes) A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created  (Upon Quotes) Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves  (Upon Quotes) We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms  (Upon Quotes) Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere  (Upon Quotes) A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate  (Upon Quotes) If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party  (Upon Quotes) If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men’s natural rights  (Upon Quotes) Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war  (Upon Quotes) Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck  (Upon Quotes)
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