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- To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 158
- I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981), From "Zion Train" lyrics.
- Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Bible, Proverbs xxii. 6.
- Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
- Bible, Matthew xxiii. 24.
- You want more constraints on you. You want to embrace constraints. Don't try to use resources to get them out of the way.
- Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.
- James Lileks, The Bleat, 03-20-2006
- The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
- Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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