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John W. Gardner
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart, 10-Dec-2003
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
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H. G. Wells
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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Rudolf Karl Bultmann
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.
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John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.
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H. L. Mencken
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
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Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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Robert Hutchins
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
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Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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