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Clever Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 8
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Kahlil Gibran
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.
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Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901)
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.
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Homer
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
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Jean de la Bruyere
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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Robert Altman
To play it safe is not to play.
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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Publilius Syrus
It is better to learn late than never.
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Katharine Whitehorn
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
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John Owen
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
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