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Swedish proverb
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
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Wilfred Owen
What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.
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Mary Ross
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.
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Lao-Tzu
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
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Susanna Moodie
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
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Baltasar Gracian
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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Albert Camus
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Charles M. Schwab
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.
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