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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. ~ Sheri S. Tepper ~.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ~ Marcel Proust ~.
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If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place. ~ U. G.
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Any social organization does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius.
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We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it then no politician or even a magician can save the planet. ~ Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. ~ Jean Cocteau.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and...
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It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. ~ Pearl S. Buck ~.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ George Orwell ~.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~.
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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. ~ Salman Rushdie ~.
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My work is a game, a very serious game. ~ M. C. Escher ~.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe ~.
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Destiny and history are untidy. ~ Djuna Barnes ~.
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We see nothing truly till we understand it. ~ John Constable ~.
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You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens. ~ Thelonious Monk.
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We see what we are told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this.
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I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes.
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People don't ever seem to realise that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune. ~ William McFee ~.
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In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority...
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will; She can,...
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I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. ~ Djuna Barnes proposed by Kalki.
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not.
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Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. ~ John Maynard Keynes ~.
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One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the...
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~.
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When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, — "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, — though...
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Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ~ Robert Fulghum ~.
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It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful...
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I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them.
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"People Aren’t Against You; They Are for Themselves".
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My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that...
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous...
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I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them.
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Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols. ~ Edward Whittemore ~.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick ~.
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The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
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The better part of wisdom is a sublime prudence, a pure and patient truth that will receive nothing it is not sure it can permanently lay to heart. ~ Margaret Fuller ~.
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I will make my meaning more clear when I say that I think right and wrong are both tools which are being wielded by those great hands which are shaping the destinies of the universe, that both are...
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Trust not your self; but your Defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend — and ev'ry Foe. ~ Alexander Pope ~.
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To saunter is to enjoy life; it is to indulge the flight of fancy; it is to enjoy the sublime pictures of misery, of love, of joy, of gracious or grotesque physiognomies; it is to pierce with a...
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I have found out that the real essentials of greatness in men are not written in books, nor can they be found in the schools, They are written into the inner consciousness of everyone who intensely...
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Affection is the greatest of human feelings because it is made of respect, of lucidity, and light.
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Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others.
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To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd.
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What we're striving for is total freedom, where we can finance our pictures, make them our way, release them where we want them released and be completely free to express ourselves.
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The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle. ~ Roger Zelazny ~ in ~ Lord of Light ~.
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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. ~ Richard Feynman ~.
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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
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The most important of my achievements, if you want to call them that, was that I successfully introduced mystical ideas into pop culture, … I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the...
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He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be in on it at any specific moment.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert ~.
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Veracity is the heart of morality. ~ T. H. Huxley.
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You cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. ~ Søren Kierkegaard ~.
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Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so. Good order and discipline in an army are more to be depended upon than ferocity. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli ~.
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True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of every positive element she lifts her gloriously radiant countenance as the founder of a new world… ~ Novalis ~.
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The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Henri Poincaré ~.
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Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett ~.
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There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~.
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So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity. ~ Robert Penn Warren ~.
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith.
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In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. ~ Charles Mingus ~.
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Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth. ~ Peter Abelard ~.
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Awakener, come. Fling wide the gate of an eternal year, The April of that glad new heavens and earth Which shall grow out of these, as spring-tide grows Slow out of winter's breast.
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I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ~ Thornton Wilder ~.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France ~.
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This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one’s...
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And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
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Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being whoever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg...
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We are nothing but someone else's fool..
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History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down. ~ Kurt Vonnegut ~.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living.
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All that we see or seem. Is but a dream within a dream. -Edgar Allan Poe.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. - Oscar Wilde.
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I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes..
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People always care where you came from. Let them be. It's where you are going matters..
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People cannot choose where, when, and into what conditions they are born. From the moment of birth, each person must live on life's terms. The world is cruel. But that's only natural.
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Humans never change their ingrained reflexes, and so they can never change the outcome-even if they do figure out the trick..
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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals..
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When the stars threw down their spears, And water’heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see？ Did he who made the Lamb make thee？.
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你如果走进社会，为了生存或是为了什么不要脸的理由，变成了一个恶心的成年人社会中的一员，那你就把这个世界变得恶心了一点点。如果你一生耿直，刚正不阿，没做任何恶心的事情，没有做任何对别人造成伤害的事情，一辈子拼了老命勉强把老婆、孩子、老娘，把身边的这些人照顾好了，没有成名，没有发财，没有成就伟大的事业，一生正直，最后梗着脖子到了七八十岁死掉了，你这一生是不是没有改变世界？你还是改变世界了，你把这个世界...
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At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating.
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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds..
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All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope.
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It was once said that love is giving somebody the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to..
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剖析幽默恰似解剖青蛙，虽可拆解细查，但在此过程中幽默必定趣味全消，恰似青蛙必无活路。而所得的五脏六腑， 除可供纯然科学理性的探讨外殊无趣味。 E.B.怀特.
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