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- To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
- Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
- To fail to love is not to exist at all.
- When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though…
- Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful…
- There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into…
- There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts…
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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
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — 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
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray