"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

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"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"Knowledge is life."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

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"A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer."

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