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William Shakespeare
What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
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Walter Lippmann
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
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Latvian Proverb
A smiling face is half the meal.
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William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Lewis Ward
Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.
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Francis Bacon
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.
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Martha Graham
The body is a sacred garment.
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Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
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Kahlil Gibran
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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M. Thompson
It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him.
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Freya Stark
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
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