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Sigmund Freud
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
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Andr Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
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G. Norman Collie
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
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Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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Wallace Stevens
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
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Anthony Burgess
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
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Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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Michael Brown
The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.
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W. Somerset Maugham
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.
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