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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.: Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.: Krishnamurti
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.: Alice James
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.: Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.: Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)