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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sydney Smith Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Carol Bellamy Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Barry Hannah Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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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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