"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world."

Rimbaud, Arthur on Life and Living
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"Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe."

Maistre, Joseph De on God
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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

Empedocles on God
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Decisions
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"Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held."

Hall, Milton on Learning
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Ability
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"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action."

Hoffer, Eric on Action
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