October 2011
91 posts
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“You see, but you do not observe,”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
September 2011
72 posts
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James
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“To cure the ill use of liberty, with a deprivation of liberty, is like cutting...”
– Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the Regulation of the Press
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“The truth is the meaning,
[that] your life is that you wouldn’t have one...”
– Imogen Heap, Kidding
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“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under...”
– Herman Melville
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“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The...”
– John Jay Chapman
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“If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are...”
– Malcolm X
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you,...”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
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“You have to have funny faces and words, you can’t just have words. It is a...”
– Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
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“It is error only, not truth, that shrinks away from inquiry.”
– Thomas Paine
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“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.”
– Josh Billings
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“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well...”
– Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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“Belief is the death of intelligence.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”
– Janis Joplin
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
– Albert Camus
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“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind....”
– Catherine Deneuve
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“Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.”
– Julian Barnes (via misterchu)
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“Love the truth more than your own ideas.”
– Luigi Giussani
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“Try not to plan too much for the future, since you future may have other stuff...”
– themindislimitless
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“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don’t always harmonize with our...”
– Brandon Mull
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“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily...”
– Norman Douglas
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“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and...”
– Jesse Jackson
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“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Tell me, is it normal to be corrupt?”
– Imogen Heap, Feeling Strange
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“Stupid people are dangerous.”
– Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
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“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.”
– Margaret Bonnano
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“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.”
–
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
– Anatole France ( 1844-1924)
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“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side...”
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted...”
– Muhammad Ali
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“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it’s source. True humility is the...”
– Avatar: The Last Air Bender (Nickelodeon Series)
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“To think is to differ.”
– Clarence Darrow
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“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face...”
– Malcolm X
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“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone...”
– Oprah Winfrey
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“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
– Stephen Bishop
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“It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only...”
– Avatar: The Last Air Bender (Nickelodeon Series)
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“You can’t let a little thing like total public humiliation get between you...”
– Martha Speaks
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“Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose...”
– Avatar: The Last Air Bender (Nickelodeon Series)
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“The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us....”
– Isobelle Carmody (Alyson Whitestarr)
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“Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”
– Henry Fielding
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“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its...”
– Lawrence Durell
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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
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“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
– H.G.Wells
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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you...”
– Mark Twain
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“Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
– Anton Chekhov
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“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth...”
– Frank Howard Clark
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“Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents...”
– Dwight Morrow
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“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain,...”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it...”
– Robert Frost 