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"An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?
Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?"
By Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648
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"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love."
By Gray Davis
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"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
By Mark Twain
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"Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility."
By David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, February 25, 2000
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"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
By Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
By Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
By Anatole France
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"A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life."
By Charles Lindberg
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"Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise."
By J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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"A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation."
By Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
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"A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul."
By Elizabeth Grymeston
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"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself."
By Steve Prefontaine
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"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy."
By Publilius Syrus
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"An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns."
By Benjamin Franklin
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"A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history."
By Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
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"Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return."
By W. H. Auden
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"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."
By Dorothy Parker
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"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."
By Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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"Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies."
By Alfred Korzybski, His book, Science And Sanity
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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
By Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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