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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So far as a person thinks; they are free.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Swami Vivekananda We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
    Swami Vivekananda
    Hindu philosopher (1863 - 1902)
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  • Bryan Burrough 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Brit Marling A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Augustus William Hare A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Dwight L. Moody A good example is far better than a good precept.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • George S. Patton A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Carl Sagan A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Andrew Vachss A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in debt is so far a slave.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Pike A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Barbara Cartland A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Norman Mailer A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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