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- 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)
- 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)
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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