"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Wilde, Oscar on quotations
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"To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted."

Voltaire on truth   

"Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on persecution   

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on enthusiasm   

"Perversity is the muse of modern literature."

Sontag, Susan on literature   

"Persevere and get it done."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"Perish those who said our good things before we did."

Donatus on plagiarism   

"Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission."

Riley, Pat on management   

"A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul."

Mccord, David on exercise   

"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."

Rostand, Jean on aphorisms and epigrams
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"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"

Stravinsky, Igor on love
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"Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?"

Eliot, George on forgiveness
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"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."

Bradley, Francis H. on repentance   

"Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train."

Milton, John on nuns   

"?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

Paulus, Trina on risk
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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato on science
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"Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

Trotsky, Leon on causes
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"Look back, and smile at perils past."

Scott, Sir Walter on past
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"This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force."

Parker, Dorothy on books - reading
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"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."

Whitman, Walt on things and little things
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"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

Bronte, Emily on charity
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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

Hare, David on poetry and poets
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"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sincerity
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"Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn."

Hayden, B. R. on sympathy   

"You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them."

Everson, Ray D. on ideas   

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

Swindoll, Charles on family
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"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hypocrisy
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"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Washington, Booker T. on strength
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"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

Plato on conflict   

"Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark."

Newton, John on zeal
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"You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert."

Waitley, Denis on learning   

"All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on self-improvement   

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

Blake, William on obscurity
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"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

Sade, Marquis De on theology
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"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on censorship
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."

Brookner, Anita on charm
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"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion."

Mcluhan, Marshall on etiquette   

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

Mailer, Norman on art
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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

Burke, Edmund on facts
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