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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. - Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. - George Bernard Shaw

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. - Albert Camus

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope. - La Rochefoucauld

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood. - H. L. Wayland

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. - Nikola Tesla

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for ’tis only to them that they are blessings. - Mary Wortley Montagu

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. - W. R. Inge

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. - Harold Geneen

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance. - Helen Lawrenson

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

The law demands good works and uses its terror–rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.–as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis–not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received. - Richard Jordan

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. - Charles Mingu

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. - Henry Miller

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. - David Armistead

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. - Hal Borland

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. - Cynthia Ozick

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning. - Martin Luther

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author. - Martin Luther

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, Act 1 scene 3

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil. - William Shakespeare

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words. - South