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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
— Abba Eban
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…
— Albert Camus
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.
— Sydney Lee
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I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,…
— Helen Prejean
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Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from…
— Ron Holland
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Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
— Nick Wechsler
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