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To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.: Robert J. Furey
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.: Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
Fall seven times, stand up eight.: Japanese Proverb
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Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.: Robert Veninga
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.: M. Cartmill
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.: Harold Bloom (1930 - )