Chief Joseph

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

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John Keats

Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they

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Saul Bellow

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

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Marcel Proust

The true paradises are paradises we have lost.

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Jane Austen

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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Michelangelo

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

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Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech, October 3, 1952

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

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Lois McMaster Bujold

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

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