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Thomas Jefferson
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
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William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992)
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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Rita Rudner
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with'
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A. Whitney Griswold
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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George Washington
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Stanislaus Lescynski
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
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