Excerpts of Citations
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
~Samuel Johnson
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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
~Plato
from Dialogues, Theatetus -
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
~Ursula K. LeGuin
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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
~Will Rogers
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
~Aristotle
from Nichomachean Ethics -
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
~E.B. White
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complain...
~George Bernard Shaw
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Do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your effort be shortened by fear of failure, nor your confession silenced for fear of shame.
~John Ruskin
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
~Han Suyin
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
~Napolean Bonaparte
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
~Lenin
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
~Colette
from The Pure and the Impure, 1932 -
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,...
~Heraclitus