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I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Henry J. Tillman
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
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George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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William James (1842 - 1910)
It is only the first step that is difficult.
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Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
I felt like poisoning a monk.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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Ellen DeGeneres
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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