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  • J. G. Ballard The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Frost The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Hewitt Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
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  • M. Rukeyser There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist.
    M. Rukeyser
     
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  • Caitlin Thomas There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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  • Cyril Connolly There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Source: Friends in Council II, ch. 2
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Alan Cohen There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Helen Rowland There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ann Druyan This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • William Penn True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Cassidy Gifford Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Baruch Spinoza We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
    Source: Ethics, part 2
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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