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Bertrand Russell
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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David Eddings, King of the Murgos
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
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Colley Cibber
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
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Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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James Boswell
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Thomas Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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Jewish Prayer
Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.
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Sophocles
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Sylvia Levi
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.
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Jason Hurst
Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.
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Leo C. Rosten
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
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