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unattributed truth from r.g.frp
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.
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Unknown
Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.
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Van Wyck Brooks
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
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Chinese Proverb
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
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Albert Einstein, On Education
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
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James Barrie
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
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William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
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Quintilian
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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Anne Sexton
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Cyril Connolly
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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