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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 3
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William James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Gen. Joseph Stilwell
Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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Sir Francis Bacon
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
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Cicero, De Amicitia
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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James Burke
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
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Orison Swett Marden
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Salvador Dali
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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Real Live Preacher
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
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Mohandas Ghandi
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
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Don Barthelme
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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