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  • Alfred Adler The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • H. Adams The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it.
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Jean Paul The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles L. Allen The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
    Charles L. Allen
    American ordained United Methodist minister (1913 - 2005)
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  • Billy Graham The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • David Hume The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Marquis de Custine The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • Desmond Morris The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • W. H. Auden The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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