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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

—Buddha
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—John F. Kennedy
Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion and love the only priest.

—Robert G. Ingersoll
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

—Katharine Hepburn
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good empty experience.

—Woody Allen
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

—Bill Clinton
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Justice is truth in action.

—Benjamin Disraeli
You'll know when you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

—Dr. Seuss
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I love the people of Illinois more than I ever have before

—Rod Blagojevich
All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

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—Canon Frederick Donaldson
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

—Brother Lawrence
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That is curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others
That is vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve
That is love.

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We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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—Solon
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

—Karen Sunde

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