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Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
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Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
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Victor Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
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William Wordsworth
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Herman Melville
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
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Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
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Sally Berger
You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.
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