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Sigmund Freud
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Henri Frdric Amiel
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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Kahlil Gibran
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
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Mark Twain
A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.
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George Burns
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
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Samuel Johnson
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Henry Thoreau
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
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Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
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Hellen Keller
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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M Scott Peck
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.
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