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- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
- What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
- Dr. David M. Burns
- Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
- Rod Steiger
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
- Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
- Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
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