"Nothing preaches better than the act."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"'Tis better to understand, than to be understood."

Francis of Assisi, St. on understanding
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"Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on thoughts and thinking
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"No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on honesty   

"This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind."

Erasmus, Desiderius on learning   

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

Epicurus on atheism
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

Freud, Sigmund on normality
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"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know."

Epicurus on popularity   

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Dyer, Wayne on perspective
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"The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

Dyer, Wayne on understanding
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

Douglass, Frederick on oppression
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"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. "

Douglass, Frederick on uncategorised   

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

Dumas, Alexandre on doubt
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on enlightenment
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"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery."

Dyer, Wayne on freedom
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Dyer, Wayne on ignorance
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"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

Dyer, Wayne on job
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."

Dyer, Wayne on opinions
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"Softly and kindly remind yourself, I cannot own anything. It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything."

Dyer, Wayne on attachment
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"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Dyer, Wayne on regret
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"Every man is his own chief enemy."

Anacharsis on anger
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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Asimov, Isaac on morality
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on self-reliance   

"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism."

Asimov, Isaac on atheism
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."

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"The happiness of society is the end of government."

Adams, John on society
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change."

Darwin, Charles on evolution
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

Dante Alighieri on action   

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on genius
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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."

Campbell, Joseph on life
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"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

Campbell, Joseph on experience   

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Congreve, William on anger
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"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on anger
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"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."

Baldwin, James on anger
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"The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen."

Shaw, George Bernard on anarchism
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"Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice."

Johnson, Samuel on revenge
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"Fear is the foundation of most government."

Adams, John on government
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"“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”"

Adams, Scott on revenge
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