Excerpts of Citations
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
~Horace
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~Sophocles
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
~Robert J. Shiller
from Irrational Exuberance -
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
~Sophocles
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Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.
~Eric Butterworth
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
~Simone de Beauvoir
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~Alfred North Whitehead
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~Peter Ustinov
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~Immanuel Kant
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
~Harriet Martineau
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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
~Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
~George Sheehan
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I am no longer concerned with good and evil. What concerns me is whether my offering will be acceptable.
~Robert Frost
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
~Howard Newton
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
~Mark Twain