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Henry James
Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had
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Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry.
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Plutarch
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Homer
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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Cicero
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.
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George Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.
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Clyde Kluckhohn
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together
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W. Somerset Maugham
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Harold Taylor
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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