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I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has… — Jason Black
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself… — Michel de Montaigne
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some… — Immanuel Kant
Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can… — Billy Mills
I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to… — Billy Mills
When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and… — Robert de Castella
I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater… — Juha Vaatainen
Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my… — Haruki Murakami
Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every… — Desiree Linden
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the… — Martin Buber
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego… — Ramakrishna
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road. — Tony Snow
I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump… — Malala Yousafzai
The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not… — T. Coleman du Pont
Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than… — Mick Delaney
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly… — Peter Noone

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