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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Author: Plutarch
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Author: Democritus
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A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Author: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Author: Henry J. Tillman
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A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.
Author: Saadi
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
Author: J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Author: Gloria Steinem, (attributed)
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Author: Carol Burnett
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The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
Author: Beatrice Lillie
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Author: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Author: Niels Bohr
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Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Author: Piero Ferrucci
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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
Author: Terence, Eunuchus
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Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
Author: R. D. Laing
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Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
Author: Author Unknown
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Author: James Branch Cabell
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Author: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
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