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  • Robert Anthony Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Adolf Hitler Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Douglas Adams Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Joseph Addison Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Arsenio Hall I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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  • James Cash Penney I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
    Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • H. A. L. Fisher I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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