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Vincent Van Gogh
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
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Herbert Spencer
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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Anna Garlin Spencer
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
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Rabbi Harold Kushner
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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Chuang-tzu
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Marquis de Sade
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Christopher Morley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody First, take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled-up napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.
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