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Vinculums of the Nexus
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
~Colettefrom The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
~Heraclitus
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He who will not economize will have to agonize.
~Confucius
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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
~Ninon de Lenclos
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
~Thomas Hardy
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It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
~William Somerset Maugham
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I am not young enough to know everything.
~Oscar Wilde
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
~Edward R. Murrow
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
~Sydney Smith
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
~Harry S Trumanfrom August 8, 1950
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~William Penn
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
~Mortimer Adler
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~Albert Einstein
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The wisest men follow their own direction.
~Euripides
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
~Elbert Hubbard
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
~Gerald R. Ford
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Communism is like one big phone company.
~Lenny Bruce
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
~Tom Lehrer
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The world belongs to the energetic.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
~Mark Twain
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Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.
~Viktor Franklfrom Man's Search for Meaning
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~Bertrand Russell