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Richard Milhous Nixon
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.
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Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964.
I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me.
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Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton
The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside.
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Frances Willard
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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Fran Lebowitz
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Rebecca West
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Leonard Bernstein
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
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William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Alexandre Dumas
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
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Jon Kabit-Zinn
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.
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