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John Locke
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
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Voltaire
Regimen is superior to medicine.
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Adolph Hitler
Brutality creates respect.
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James Agate
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
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Jane Austen
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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Clive Lewis
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
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G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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Sextus Propertius
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
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Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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Thomas Mann
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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Joan Baez
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
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