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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
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Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.
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Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 08-29-06
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
You never can see into someone else's marriage.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
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Anthony Starr
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
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Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
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Emile Chartier
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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