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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly…
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Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware…
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and…
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind;…
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I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny…
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But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then,…
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
— Hannah Arendt
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
— Marian Anderson
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects…
— John Ruskin
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
— Confucius
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No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
— John Cassian
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When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put…
— Mabel Collins
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
— Vladimir Putin
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Only He who made man makes man happy.
— Saint Augustine
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The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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