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Pope John Paul II
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
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Thomas Fuller
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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G. Weilacher
One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
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Joseph Chilton Pearce
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
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Mary Shelley
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
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G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
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Baltasar Gracian
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
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Cicero
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
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Homer
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
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Sydney J. Harris
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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