Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

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Aesop

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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Orison Swett Marden

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

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John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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Anon.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

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Edward Everett Hale

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

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Al Batt

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

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Thomas Huxley

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

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This Is Spinal Tap

Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black.

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Margaret Cho

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

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A. Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

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