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Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort. — Walt Disney
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that… — Diana Gabaldon
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due… — Bertrand Russell
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one… — Hermann Hesse
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,… — Fernando Pessoa
love as a passionâ€”it is our European specialtyâ€”must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent — Isaac Newton
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would… — John Wyndham
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves… — Fernando Pessoa
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since… — Alexander Pope
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility… — Ambrose Bierce
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauerâ€™s saying, â€˜A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
A piece of happiness should never be taken as due. — Charlaine Harris

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