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Jalal ud-Din Rumi
I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found.
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Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Katharine Whitehorn
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
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William Blake
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Russell Baker
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato.
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Kathryn Schaefer Plaum
Live.....Laugh.....GOLF
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Mencius
The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.
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William Shakespeare
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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