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Heraclitus, On the Universe
Much learning does not teach understanding.
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Leo C. Rosten
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
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Michel de Montaigne
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
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Sir Thomas More
Why dost thou gaze upon the sky O that I were yon spangled sphere Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here.
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Henry George
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
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John Witherspoon
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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Ivan Pavlov
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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Dana Hatch
I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.
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Lord Thomas Dewar
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.
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