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Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Jorge Luis Borges
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite.
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Harriet Martineau
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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Eugene V. Debs
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
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Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
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Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Truman Capote
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Sir Arthur Helps
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
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Vulgate
Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)
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G. K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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Jan Ehrenwald.
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
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