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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Macdonald To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Samuel Butler To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Honoré de Balzac To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Eric Hoffer To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Wilma Scott To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.
    Wilma Scott
     
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  • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.
    Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
    Roman Christian poet
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  • Kofi Annan To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Pais To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Ang Lee To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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