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Random Short Quotes - 13
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Albert Einstein
A storm broke loose in my mind.
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Joseph Addison
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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George Steiner
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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Archibald MacLeish
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.
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Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
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Ovid
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
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Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
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Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Italian Proverb
Love rules without rules.
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William Shakespeare
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
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Aristophanes
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh
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Thales
Know thyself.
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