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  • Andre Breton No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
    A Psalm of Life
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Simone Weil Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Andre Breton Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Prospect is often better than possession.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Helen Keller Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • William James The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idle.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bill Dedman The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne The logic of the heart is usually better than the logic of the head, and the consistency of sympathy is superior as rule for life to the consistency of the intellect.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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