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"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make"
Abraham Cowley, Poet
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that"
Oliver Stone, Director
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him"
Orson Scott Card, Writer
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance"
Akhenaton, Statesman
"A desert is a place without expectation"
Nadine Gordimer, Novelist
"There is nothing more dangerous than security"
Francis Walsingham, Celebrity
"One person's crazyness is another person's reality"
Tim Burton, Director
"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up"
Mary Cassatt, Artist
"The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it"
Bill Copeland, Athlete
"People want security in this insecure world"
David Bailey, Photographer
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"A man is what he thinks about all day long"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Man is a universe within himself"
Bob Marley, Musician
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise"
Victor Hugo, Author
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men"
Plato, Philosopher
"Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up"
Robert Frost, Poet
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"Despair is the conclusion of fools"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger"
James A. Baldwin, Author
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