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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare How poor are they that have no patience.
    Othello (1622)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Dean William R. Inge How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • David J. Schwartz How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Auberon Herbert How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Dhammapada However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Kofi Annan However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Laurens van der Post Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
    Laurens van der Post
    South African army officer and English author (1906 - 1996)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • George Eliot Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Primo Levi Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Albert Camus Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Marquis de Sade Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Jean Paul Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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