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"There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in."

Gerald Durrell

Various

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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness

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"Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause."

Eric Hoffer

Various

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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."

Thomas Sowell

Truth and Falsity

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"It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee

Peace and War

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"Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Marriage

Woman and Man

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"This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds."

Charles Baudelaire

Life and Death

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"If you can't appreciate it, you don't deserve it."

Click if you know the author

Various

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"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

Laurence J. Peter

History and Nations

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"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

Jean Anouilh "Becket"

Beauty and Ugliness

God and Religion

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"A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."

Wallace Stevens

Art and Culture

Woman and Man

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"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."

Publilius Syrus

Dreams and Desires

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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck

Nature and Animals

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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. "

Clive Staples Lewis

Time and Passing

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"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Various

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"If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers."

Charles Dickens "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Good and Evil

Law and Crime

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"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he."

Karl Kraus

Wisdom and Stupidity

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"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."

R. G. Collingwood "Speculum Mentis"

Freedom and Servitude

Work and Laziness

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"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

Georges Clemenceau

Justice

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"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Immanuel Kant

Manners and Ethics

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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Ryszard Kapusciński "A Warsaw Diary"

Question and Problem

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"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

Oscar Wilde

Egoism

Love

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"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

Lewis Thomas

Manners and Ethics

Various

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"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love."

Henry Miller

Love

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"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."

Carl Sandburg

Art and Culture

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"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

Aldous Huxley

Happiness

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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

Youth and Age

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"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

Rabindranath Tagore

Pain and Tears

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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

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"If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a God."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Life and Death

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"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

History and Nations

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"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow."

Arthur Stringer

Various

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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

Alfred North Whitehead

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

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"Fall down seven times. Stand up eight."

Japanese Proverbs

Defeates and Mistakes

Sin and Conscience

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"Space is to place as eternity is to time."

Joseph Joubert

Time and Passing

Various

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"It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it."

Joseph Joubert

Happiness

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"America is a young country with an old mentality."

George Santayana "Winds of Doctrine"

History and Nations

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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

Emma Goldman

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

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"Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays"

Destiny and Fate

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"Variety is the mother of Enjoyment."

Benjamin Disraeli "Vivian Grey"

Joy and Sadness

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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Napoleon Hill

Success and Fame

Various

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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

John Steinbeck

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Various

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"Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us."

Henry Fielding

Sin and Conscience

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"Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert."

Henry Miller "Tropic of Cancer"

Art and Culture

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"To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Happiness

Woman and Man

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"Error is the price we pay for progress."

Alfred North Whitehead

Defeates and Mistakes

Knowledge, Ignorance

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"A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God."

Donald Knuth

Science and Technology

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"Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market."

Ambrose Bierce

Woman and Man

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