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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 180
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Matthew Arnold
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Edgar Watson Howe
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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William Ellery Channing
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
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Umberto Eco
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991
If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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