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Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
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Patanjali
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
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Kahlil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Robert A. Heinlein
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Juvenal, Satires
Who will guard the guards themselves? (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Here's a good tip for when you go to the beach A sand dollar may look like a nice cracker that someone left, but trust me, they don't taste like it.
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Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.
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Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
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