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“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian

“Immigrant parents don’t want their children to suffer or have to live harder than they did.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

As quoted in "Jenny Han Has Been Here All Along" in Elle (24 February 2020) https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a30913764/jenny-han-interview-to-all-the-boys-sequel/

“Rather than building the economy for all of us, we are mining the bottom to benefit the top.”

David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author

David Cay Johnston: The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality (Jun 1, 2014)

“Whoever tries to stop the saying of mass is a worse fanatic than the priest who says it.”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

Attacking the Dechristianization movement
Misc Quotes

“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Be grateful with what you have - by looking at those who have less than you.”

Yasir Qadhi (1975) Pakistani-American preacher and imam

“Nobody has done more for Christianity or for evangelicals — or for religion itself — than I have.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Quoted in "Donald Trump Claims Nobody Has Done More 'for Religion Itself' Than Him" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-claims-nobody-has-done-more-religion-itself-him-1635036, Newsweek, 2 October 2021 <br class="br">2021, October 2021

“Turning an influencer status into a public speaker is much easier than you can imagine.”

Vladimer Botsvadze

“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”

Charles Sheffield book Convergence

Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)

“…Who better than a Latin American to write about dirty tricks and other stories.”

José Baroja book El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

"Public Good" (December 1780) http://www.thomas-paine-friends.org/paine-thomas_public-good-1780.html. <br class="br">1780s

“They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark…”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

“And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry
the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

“The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.”

Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual

"The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Jun 1999, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545kh

“The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

“From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."”

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) English lawyer, author and cricketer

Part VIII
The Manliness of Christ (1879)