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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least… — Charles Caleb Colton
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. — Bertrand Russell
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it,… — Andrea Dworkin
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control… — Epicurus
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. — Andre Gide
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come… — Joseph Wood Krutch
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed — Friedrich Nietzsche
Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson:… — Marilyn Manson
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned… — C.S. Lewis
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together. — Samuel Johnson
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… — Joseph Addison
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. — Baron de Montesquieu
When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most… — Billy Graham
But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men. — William Shakespeare
For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for… — Mary Caroline Richards
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.' — Philip Kapleau
The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the… — Dave Barry
The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and… — Diane von Furstenberg

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