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  • Bell Hooks To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Source: Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Samuel Butler To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • George Bernard Shaw To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bodhidharma To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
    Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Al Oerter To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Bertrand Russell To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Mark Van Doren To fail to love is not to exist at all.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Anatole France To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Quentin Crisp To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Albert Einstein To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Hooker To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
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  • Barry Humphries To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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