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W. Fusselman
Today a reader--tomorrow a leader.
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Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Granville Hicks
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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John Ernst Steinbeck
Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.
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Hal Borland
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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Francis Bacon
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
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D. H. Lawrence
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.
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English Proverb
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
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Aesop
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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William Shakespeare
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
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Elizabeth I
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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Virgil
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
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