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  • Denis Diderot It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • John Lydon Rotten It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
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  • Thomas Fuller Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Fuller Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Smiles Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Octavio Paz Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Helen Keller My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • J. C. Macaulay Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Amy Tan No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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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.
    Source: 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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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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