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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation…
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of…
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with…
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks…
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That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
— B.F. Skinner
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The…
— Noah Richler
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McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever…
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books…
— Cees Nooteboom
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…
— Jonathan Raban
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It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch…
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