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I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy it leads only to itself.
Victor Cousin
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
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In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Victor Cousin
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Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.
Victor Cousin
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Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.
Victor Cousin
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
Tacitus
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
Elisabeth Elliot
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It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action
Samuel Smiles
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
Benjamin Disraeli
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While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.
Chelsea Handler
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
Jim Bishop
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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
David McCullough
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
Max Frisch
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The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
Victor Cousin
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But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
Arianna Huffington
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Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.
Dale Carnegie
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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