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Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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James A. Forude
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
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Johnson
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch A jack-o'-lantern with a knife in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
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Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Horace Walpole
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.
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Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nothing endures but change.
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Thomas Carlyle
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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