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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 8
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John Constable
I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.
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Randolph Bourne
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
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Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
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Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do
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Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
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Horatio Nelson
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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US Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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