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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Forgotten

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Children, Through

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Others, Wonderful, Makes

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain

Lie, Around, Neglected

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Spirit, Half

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx

Care, Club, Accepts

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Black, Progress

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Eyes, Books

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill Cosby

Women, Men, Different

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, America, Few

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs

Why, Church, Ridiculous

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

Party, Democrat, Organized

I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, History

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Care, Accept, Please

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury

Politics, Hate, Political

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel

Yourself, Die, Boredom

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Beautiful, Humanity

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold

Love, Respect, May

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell

Nothing, May, After

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell

Real, Free, Themselves

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Mean, Manners

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good, Adversity, Prosperity

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt

Society, Wise, Enough

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
Jeanne Moreau

Tried, Behave, Groups

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody

Place, Away, Talk

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I

Rock, Sex, Find

Political movements always belong to the young.
Harvey Fierstein

Political, Young, Movements

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen

Truth, Human, Happen

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
Danica McKellar

Good, School, Hard

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