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  • Richard of Saint Victor Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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  • Paul Auster It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Wilma Rudolph It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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  • Angela Davis It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Robert Lynd It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Camille Pissarro It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Edmund Burke It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Napoleon Hill It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Beatrice Webb It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bryan Ferry It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore Love is a fever, she said. And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • André Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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