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  • Blaise Pascal If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
    Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Salvatore Satta If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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  • C. S. Lewis If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benigno Aquino III If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • François Fénelon If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Schopenhauer If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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  • Gloria Steinem If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barry Diller If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Casey Stengel If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Antonin Scalia If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Yann Martel If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Elmore Leonard If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • James A. Garfield If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Lee If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Carine Roitfeld If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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