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Quotes by Philosopher
"What supporters say about their leadertells men a third about who he is. What supporters do for their leadertells men two thirds about who he is. What supporters give up for their leadertells men all of who he is."
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"The cats sleep for days at a time and make love from the first star until dawn. Their pleasures are fierce, and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
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"God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody, he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
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"When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going, men are more interested in where the woman has been."
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"An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold."
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"Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend."
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". But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is preciselylife that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis.To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive."
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"Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before!"
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"Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses."
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"To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy."
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"Fools do not acknowledge God, the proud reject Him, the wise embrace Him, and the righteous worship Him."
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"Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment."
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"You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."
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"School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be."
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"If you think too much, you will worry too much; if you worry too much, you will fear too much; if you fear too much, you will dread too much; and if you dread too much, you will suffer too much."
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"On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth."
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"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!"
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"Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities."
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"If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?"
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"It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance."
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"Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!"
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"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
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"When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top."
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"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
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"Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden."
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"We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in."
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"Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door."
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"The great, like plants, do not curse storms for they are nourished by them."
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"A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life."
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"The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!"
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"Flowers have to stretch to bloom."
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"Create answers where there are questions. Create solutions where there are problems. Create advantages where there are obstacles. Create opportunities where there are roadblocks."
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"A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble."
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"If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow."
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"Some wo/men are so possessive - you end up missing missing them."
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"Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it."
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"Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas."
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"A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea."
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"Fear makes a cub sound like a lion. Faith makes a lion sound like a cub."
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"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!"
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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"Understanding is the bridge between two minds, love is the bridge between two souls."
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"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm."
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