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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising…
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long…
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Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they…
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Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and…
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or…
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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her…
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is…
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
— John Selden
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no,…
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Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not…
— J C Ryle
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but…
— M. Scott Peck
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
— Madame Roland
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Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The…
— George Washington
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Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for…
— Chrysippus
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Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
— Duke of Wellington
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people…
— Gautama Buddha
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