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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • James Elroy Flecker For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
    James Elroy Flecker
    English poet (1884 - 1915)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Lynd Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Winston Churchill From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Adolf Hitler Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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