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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
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Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826)
To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
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Robert J. Furey
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
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