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Brenda Ueland
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again.
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Siddha Nagarjuna
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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David Brower
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.
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John Locke
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
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Shahrukh Khan, a famous actor in india
Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.
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Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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Richard Jordan
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
To philosophize is to doubt.
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Raymond Justice
I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised.
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