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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Igor Stravinsky In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Louis Aragon Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Woody Allen More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Juvenal Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • George Orwell No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Buddha On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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