"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."

Erasmus, Desiderius on jesus christ
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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

Schlegel, Friedrich on humankind   

"No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved."

Knox, John on jesus christ
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"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."

Ruskin, John on humankind   

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

Conroy, Pat on music
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on music
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"He who forgives ends the quarrel"

Unknown, Source on forgiveness
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"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on power
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals."

Twain, Mark on doctors
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on reform   

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"A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion."

Unknown, Source on opinions   

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

James, Henry on women   

"He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave."

Klopstock on opinions   

"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on enemies   

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"Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks."

Unknown, Source on opinions   

"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be..."

Keynes, John Maynard on america
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"In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on philosophers and philosophy   

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

Russell, Bertrand on opinions
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"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on public opinion   

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

Mill, John Stuart on repression
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"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-esteem
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"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea."

Twain, Mark on discovery
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"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."

Twain, Mark on democracy
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries."

Bierce, Ambrose on divorce   

"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose on absurdity
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"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on prejudice
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"Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on opinions
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"We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on opinions
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"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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