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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
Lewis Carroll
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Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Sherwood Eddy
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
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True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.
Leo Tolstoy
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Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
William Shakespeare
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You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.
George M. Cohan
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She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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One of the main reasons why the sciences are so poor is that they imagine they are so rich. It isn't their job to throw open the door to infinite wisdom but to put a limit to infinite error.
Galileo speaking
Bertolt Brecht
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My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Pablo Neruda
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
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It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.
Michael Arlen
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For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
John Winthrop
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Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes V. Jensen
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
Henrik Ibsen
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
G. K. Chesterton
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.
William Faulkner
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
Henry Drummond
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