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William Shakespeare
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Titus Livius
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.
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Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Edgar Watson Howe
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Artemus Ward
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
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Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
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Shelley
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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George Macaulay Trevelyan
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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