"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."

Williams, Tad on certainty   

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on certainty
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"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Mencken, H. L. on certainty
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."

Camus, Albert on giving
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"Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened."

Camus, Albert on work   

"Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."

Grass, Gunther on despair
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day."

Unknown, Source on despair
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."

Russell, Bertrand on eloquence   

"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."

Valery, Paul on creativity
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"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."

Schuller, Robert H. on thoughts and thinking   

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Ali, Muhammad on boxing
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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

Connolly, Cyril on idleness   

"We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."

Connolly, Cyril on illusion   

"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."

Connolly, Cyril on reason   

"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."

Connolly, Cyril on life   

"Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."

Connolly, Cyril on crime and criminals
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"The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next."

Connolly, Cyril on decadence
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