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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are the keys of paradise.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
- Loudest
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
- Machines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
- Common
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
- Nov 07, 2020
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
- Good Habits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
- Grievance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
- Obvious
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- Nov 07, 2020
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- Miracles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man by himself is in bad company.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- Difficulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
- Number
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
- Perishable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020