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- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
- Jean Kerr
- At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
- All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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