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- There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
- Robert Chapman
- Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
- Sir Henry Taylor
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
- Coventry Patmore
- There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment; there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
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