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| The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| There is no disinfectant like success. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others. |
Ren G. Torres |
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| My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher. |
Socrates |
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| Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. |
Socrates |
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| Wisdom begins in wonder. |
Socrates |
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| The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. |
Socrates |
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| The unexamined life is not worth living. |
Socrates |
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| My belief is that to have no wants is divine. |
Socrates |
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| I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology) |
Socrates |
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| He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. |
Socrates |
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| Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. |
Socrates |
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| True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. |
Socrates |
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| I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know. |
Socrates |
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| I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. |
Socrates |
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| Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. |
Socrates |
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| Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. |
Socrates |
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| Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well. |
Socrates |
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| By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. |
Socrates |
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| I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. |
Socrates |
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| Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. |
Socrates |
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| Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. |
Socrates |
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| The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him. |
Socrates |
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| Let him that would move the world, first move himself. |
Socrates |
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| People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. |
Socrates |
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| The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. |
Socrates |
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| I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. |
Socrates |
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| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults. |
Socrates |
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| The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. |
Socrates |
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| Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. |
Socrates |
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| The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. |
Socrates |
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| Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. |
Socrates |
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| Envy is the ulcer of the soul. |
Socrates |
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| Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. |
Socrates |
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| Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. |
Socrates |
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| Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. |
Socrates |
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| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. |
Socrates |
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| I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. |
Socrates |
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| Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. |
Socrates |
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| I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. |
Socrates |
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| Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat. |
Socrates |
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| Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. |
Socrates |
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| There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. |
Socrates |
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| And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let the dead bury their dead. |
Matthew 821-22 |
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| An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |
Victor Hugo |
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| The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. |
Victor Hugo |
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| The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. |
Victor Hugo |
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| The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables) |
Victor Hugo |
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| At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables) |
Victor Hugo |
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| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. |
Victor Hugo |
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| There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. |
Victor Hugo |
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| I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age. |
Victor Hugo |
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| There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. |
Victor Hugo |
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| When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. |
Victor Hugo |
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| From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Life is the flower for which love is the honey. |
Victor Hugo |
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| One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do. |
Victor Hugo |
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| So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. |
Victor Hugo |
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| No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men. |
Victor Hugo |
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| He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
Victor Hugo |
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| A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. |
Victor Hugo |
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| People do not lack strength, they lack will. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. |
Victor Hugo |
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| If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. |
Victor Hugo |
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| If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Popularity It is glory's small change. |
Victor Hugo |
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| I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. |
Victor Hugo |
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| What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love |
Victor Hugo |
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| He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. |
Victor Hugo |
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| There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. |
Victor Hugo |
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| If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. |
Victor Hugo |
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| There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. |
Victor Hugo |
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| To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation. |
Victor Hugo |
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| Minds are like parachutes they work best when open. |
Lord Thomas Dewar |
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| The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. |
Lord Thomas Dewar |
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| Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. |
Lord Thomas Dewar |
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