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"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."

By Dalton Camp

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"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."

By Richard Feynman

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"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."

By Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

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"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

By Honore de Balzac

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"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it."

By Jess Lair

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"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."

By Anne Sullivan

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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

By Dag Hammarskjold

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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

By Newt Gingrich

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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

By Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

By Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

By Ice T, The Ice Opinion

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"Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance."

By M. C. Richards

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

By Pablo Picasso

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"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."

By George Bernard Shaw

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"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

By Oscar Wilde

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"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings."

By George Tooker

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"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

By H. L. Mencken

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"Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."

By Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. "

By George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

By Lord Acton, 1887

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