"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

Proverb, Yiddish on words
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"The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people."

Shedd, Charlie on churches
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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on heroes and heroism
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"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on self discovery
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"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on criticism
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

Santayana, George on wisdom
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."

Pythagoras on gossip
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"The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most."

Crane, Frank on books - reading
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"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Goodman, Paul on joy
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on honesty
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"I never exaggerate. I just remember big."

Rodriguez, Chi Chi on exaggeration
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"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."

Shaw, George Bernard on reason
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."

Hugo, Victor on genius   

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Baudelaire, Charles on modern and modernism   

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected."

Wicker, John on opportunity   

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Berger, John on bores and boredom
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"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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"It is always the unreadable that occurs."

Wilde, Oscar on news   

"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on nature   

"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on action
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"Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side."

Maclaren, Alexander on death
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"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."

Hunt, Trinidad on change
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"Out of limitations, new forms emerge"

Braque, Georges on limitation
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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talent
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

Cicero, Marcus T. on moderation
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"The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised
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"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."

Kundera, Milan on fiction   

"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters."

Eliot, George on books - reading
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"Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases."

Conant, James B. on propaganda
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling."

Lewis, C. S. on value
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."

Moore, Marianne on editing and editors
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on imagination
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"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."

Schnitzler, Arthur on art   

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joubert, Joseph on labor
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists
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