"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
-Tryon Edwards
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"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
-Tryon Edwards
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
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"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
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"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
-John Buchanan
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"Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else."
-Thylias Moss
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"As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex."
-Adam Sedgwick
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"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."
-Lord Halifax
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"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
-Agnes Obel
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"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."
-Edmund S. Muskie
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