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"If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it."
H. G. Wells
"If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it."
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"The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out."
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"If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves."
John Stuart Mill
"If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves."
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"These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul."
Eleesha
"These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul."
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"There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself, you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone."
Roy T. Bennett
"There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself, you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone."
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"When you give everything, you have nothing to lose."
Kate McGahan
"When you give everything, you have nothing to lose."
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"Let strength and wisdom carry you forward beyond the limited horizons - you may have once envisioned."
Eleesha
"Let strength and wisdom carry you forward beyond the limited horizons - you may have once envisioned."
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly."
William Samuel Johnson
"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly."
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"An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books."
Malcolm X
"An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books."
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"Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding."
A.J. Darkholme
"Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding."
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"People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong."
Amit Kalantri
"People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong."
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"The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all."
Stephen King
"The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all."
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"You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does."
Haruki Murakami
"You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does."
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"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
David Starr Jordan
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
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"He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise."
Quintus Ennius
"He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise."
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"Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego."
Albert Einstein
"Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego."
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"Science is nothing but perception."
Plato
"Science is nothing but perception."
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"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
Alexander Pope
"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
Karl Marx
"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"Delay is preferable to error."
Thomas Jefferson
"Delay is preferable to error."
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"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."
Voltaire
"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."
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"Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."
Henry David Thoreau
"Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."
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"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
Plato
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
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"When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet."
Steve Maraboli
"When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet."
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"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
Elbert Hubbard
"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Mark Twain
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
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"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
John Updike
"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
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"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
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"Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support."
Rumi
"Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support."
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"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."
Lao Tzu
"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."
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"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."
Mark Twain
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."
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"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race."
Stanley Kunitz
"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race."
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"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Plato
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
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"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
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"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."
George A. Romero
"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."
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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
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"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
Shmuel Y. Agnon
"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
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"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
John Selden
"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
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"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
Elbert Hubbard
"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
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"I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out."
Josh Brolin
"I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out."
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"Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you."
Debasish Mridha
"Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you."
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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Aristotle
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
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"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
Albert Einstein
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
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"I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away."
Christina G. Rossetti
"I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away."
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"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
Sacha Guitry
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
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"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land."
Jack Kerouac
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land."
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"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."
Rasheed Ogunlaru
"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."
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"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart."
Hunter S. Thompson
"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart."
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