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Gore Vidal
I'm a born-again atheist.
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E.M. Forster
Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.
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Bertrand Russell
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
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Mary Pickford
This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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Jean-Paul Marat
God has always been hard on the poor.
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William Blake
He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.
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William Ellery Channing
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
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Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Anna Freud
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
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Helen Keller
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,
It gives a lovely light.
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