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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
Cicero
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An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
Dutch Proverb
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Reality is only just a word.
Harry Chapin
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
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A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
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There's a difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path.
The Matrix
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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
Etty Hillesum
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What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
Oprah Winfrey
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Janis Joplin
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There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Muriel Strode
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
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Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive Jones
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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
Peter McWilliams
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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Seneca
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Muriel Strode
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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
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You have brains in your head.
Dr. Seuss
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I have not seen a newspaper in over a month, and feel much the better for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
C. S. Lewis
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He was a wise man who invented God.
Plato
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epicurus
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Bible
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