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For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.: Bible, James 1: 23-24
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.: John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)

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