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Paul Valery
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
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Bertrand Russell
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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Hesiod
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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Hansell B. Duckett
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Mark Twain
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Denis Watley
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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Edwin Schlossberg
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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Robert Redford
If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
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William Feather
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
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Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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