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Serenity Proverbs Online - Random Mix - 13
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Alfred North Whitehead
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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William James
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.
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Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side.
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Paul Valery
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
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Marshal Tito
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
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William Ralph Inge
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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Peter McWilliams
The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
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Charles Caleb Colton
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
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Stephen King
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.
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George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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Proverbs 1532 Bible
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
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