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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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Plato
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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Cato the Elder
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
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Franz Xavier Kroetz
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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Crow, The
Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.
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Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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Pope John Paul II
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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George Goethals
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
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Samuel Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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