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Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Johann K. Lavater
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'
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Oscar Levant
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
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Pliny the Elder
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
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Robert Frost
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Socrates
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Theodore Hesburgh
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're a boxing referee, it's probably illegal to wear a bow tie that spins or changes colors.
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Indian Proverb
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
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Alan Dean Foster
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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