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Bertrand Russell
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
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John J. Plomp
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
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Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.
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John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal"
Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.
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Henry Miller
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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Unknown
Character is what you are when no one is looking.
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Jacobi
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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The Talmud
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
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