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German Proverb
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
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Bill Watterson
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin
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G. C. Lichtenberg
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
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Ezra Loomis Pound
There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.
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Edgar Bergen
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Scott Adams
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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Harold Bloom
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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Erich Fromm
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
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Jeff Marder
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
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Odetta
No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
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Joseph Conrad
I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.
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Henry Van Dyke
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
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