"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

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"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

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"Science is nothing but perception."

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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

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"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

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"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

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"Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society, inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people-"base."

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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."

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"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

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"The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength."

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