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John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
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Russian proverb
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
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William Shakspeare, Julius Ceaser
The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.
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Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
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Muriel Spark
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
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Ellen Goodman
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
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Al Capone
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
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Isadora Duncan
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
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Carl Jung
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
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Walt Disney
All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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