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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for…
— Aristotle
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.
— Hillary Clinton
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Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
— Ovid
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Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
— Francois Guizot
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…
— John Evelyn
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Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
— Joel Osteen
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In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne…
— Louis Pasteur
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The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
— Richard Sibbes
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
— Loren Eiseley
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... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is…
— Louis L'Amour
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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