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- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
- Albert Guerard
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
- Clementine Paddleford
- If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
- If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
- Sefer Hasidim
- Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
- John Irving (1942 - )
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
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