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Richard Leider
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
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William Osler
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
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Mark Twain
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
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Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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George Santayana
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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Antione De Riveral
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
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Robert Hall
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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William James
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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Benjamin Cardozo
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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Jules de Gautier
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
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Leonard Hodgson
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
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