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Matsuo Basho
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
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Bern Williams
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
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A. M. Rosenthal
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
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Rona Barrett
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
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Robert Anson Heinlein
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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A. S. Neill
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.
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Euripides
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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Hannah Arendt
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
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Mark Twain
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
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Al Seckel
In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' '
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