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- To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
- To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but…
- The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical…
- Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman