Tag: quotes
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Pele Quotes
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who is widely regarded to be the greatest player of all time. Named FIFA co-Player of the Century in 1999, he is a global ambassador for soccer and other humanitarian causes. Born: October 23, 1940 Brazil Success is no accident. It…
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Family Quotes
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. – Confucius A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. –Buddha You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. –Desmond Tutu Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. -Michael…
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Encouraging Quotes
The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. –Nelson Mandela We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. –Martin Luther King I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. – Dalai…
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Spiritual Quotes
Spirituality means an experience to bring closeness with the divine.There is no single, widely-agreed definition of spirituality.Many people confuse spirituality with religion. According to Waaijman, the traditional meaning of spirituality is a process of re-formation which “aims to recover the original shape of man, the image of God. Just as a candle cannot burn without…
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William Blake Quotes
William Blake was an English painter, poet and printmaker who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. Born: November 28, 1757, Soho, London, United Kingdom Died: August 12, 1827, Westminster, United Kingdom Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. You never know…
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Anne Frank Quotes
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was a German-Jewish teenager.She was a diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has become one of the most powerful memoirs of the Holocaust. Born :June 12, 1929 Died :Early March 1945 (aged 15)…
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Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Thomas Aquinas also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino was a Catholic Priest in the Dominican Order and one of the most important Medieval philosophers and theologians.His most influential works are the Summa Theologica and and the Summa contra Gentiles. Born: January 28, 1225, Roccasecca, Italy Died: March 7, 1274, Fossanova Abbey, Priverno, Italy There…
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René Descartes Quotes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic. Born: March 31, 1596, France Died: February 11, 1650,Sweden Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. The reading of all good books is like a conversation…
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Born: July 21, 1899,United States Died: July 2, 1961,United States Notable awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953) , Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)…
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Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Read below some of the Quotes of Wassily Kandinsky. Color is a power which directly influences the soul. The artist must train not only his eye…
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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. Born: May 9, 1883, Madrid, Spain Died: October 18, 1955, Madrid, Spain Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum…
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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”. He was one of the key figures…