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| The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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| A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. |
Cardinal Mermillod |
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| The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. |
Epicurus |
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| It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. |
Epicurus |
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| Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. |
Epicurus |
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| Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
Epicurus |
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| In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. |
Epicurus |
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| The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. |
Epicurus |
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| It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. |
Epicurus |
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| We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need. |
Epicurus |
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| He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others. |
Epicurus |
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| Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. |
Epicurus |
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| The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. |
Epicurus |
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| Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. |
Epicurus |
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| Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. |
Epicurus |
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| Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. |
Epicurus |
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| History is a vast early warning system. |
Norman Cousins |
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| Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. |
Norman Cousins |
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| Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. |
Norman Cousins |
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| Life is an adventure in forgiveness. |
Norman Cousins |
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| The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. |
Norman Cousins |
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| What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too. |
Norman Cousins |
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| The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. |
Norman Cousins |
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| A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life. |
Norman Cousins |
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| Laughter is inner jogging. |
Norman Cousins |
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| Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity. |
Harold J. Seymore |
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| You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. |
Lee Trevino |
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| The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. |
Alain |
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| What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. |
Alain |
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| When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. |
Alain |
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| You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. |
Charles Austin Beard |
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| When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. |
Charles Austin Beard |
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| Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth |
Rush Hour |
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| Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man. |
Rush Hour |
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| Carter This is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama's ashamed of me. She tells everybody I'm a drug dealer. |
Rush Hour |
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| Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are. |
Rush Hour |
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| Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito |
Rush Hour |
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| Carter My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too. |
Rush Hour |
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| Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Brain an apparatus with which we think we think. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| The covers of this book are too far apart. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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| You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. |
Doug Floyd |
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| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. |
Joseph Addison |
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| He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. |
Joseph Addison |
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| When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. |
Joseph Addison |
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| What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. |
Joseph Addison |
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| The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. |
Joseph Addison |
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| There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. |
Joseph Addison |
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| One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. |
Joseph Addison |
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| A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. |
Joseph Addison |
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| I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. |
Joseph Addison |
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| I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. |
Joseph Addison |
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| The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. |
Joseph Addison |
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| 'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. |
Joseph Addison |
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| What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country |
Joseph Addison |
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| Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. |
Joseph Addison |
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| The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. |
Joseph Addison |
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| What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. |
Joseph Addison |
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| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. |
Joseph Addison |
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| If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. |
Joseph Addison |
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| An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. |
Joseph Addison |
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| True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. |
Joseph Addison |
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