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George Santayana
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
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Tancred
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Simone de Beauvoir
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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Emily Dickinson
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
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Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.
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Thomas Paine
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
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Aldous Huxley
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
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Rosemary Konner Steinbaum
You are the product of your own brainstorm.
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Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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King Edward VIII
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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Helen Keller
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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