Excerpts of Citations
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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 hap...
~Viktor Frankl
from Man's Search for Meaning -
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~Bertrand Russell
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
~Leonardo da Vinci
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide
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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
~Artemus Ward
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority...
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
~Oscar Wilde
from The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 -
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
~Professor Irwin Corey
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This is how life will be. I must be wholehearted while tentative, fight for my values yet respect others, believe my deepest values right yet be ready to learn. I see that I shall be retracing this...
~William Perry
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A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It’s not as wide as you think."
~Joseph Campbell
from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living