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A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
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Cardinal de Retz, Memoires
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
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Marguerite de Valois
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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Lucille S. Harper
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
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Edwin Arnold
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
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Cullen Hightower
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.
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Emil Zatopek
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
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Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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John Berry, Flight of White Crows
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
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Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2-10-05
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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