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Robert Lynd
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
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George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
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Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Johann von Goethe
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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C. E. Stowe
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Karl Popper
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.
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Ivan Pavlov
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
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Quintilian
That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
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Saadi
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
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James Carroll
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
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