"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

Swift, Jonathan on death
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"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on slavery
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

Steinbeck, John on travel
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"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."

Hazlitt, William on reason   

"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"What is art but a way of seeing?"

Berger, Thomas on art
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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."

Lynes, Russell on cynics and cynicism
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

Angelou, Maya on cynicism
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."

Pirandello, Luigi on gentlemen
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"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

Clemenceau, Georges on america
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"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable."

Unknown, Source on gentlemen
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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on writers and writing
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"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on memory
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"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

Phelps, William Lyon on gentlemen
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"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."

Allen, Fred A. on gentlemen   

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Angelou, Maya on impression
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on truth
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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