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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Author: Herbert Spencer Look
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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
Author: Thomas H. Huxley Look
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Author: Walter Bagehot Look
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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Author: Ovid Look
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Look
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Author: Horace Look
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Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us
Author: Robert Burns, To A Louse Look
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One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people.
Author: Douglas Adams Look
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Author: Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963) Look
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Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.
Author: Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3.6.7] Look
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again!
Author: Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917) Look
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One dies only once, and then for such a long time!
Author: Moličre, Le Dépit Amoureux (1656) Look
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One does not learn how to die by killing others.
Author: Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Memoirs (1826-1841) Look
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Look
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Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended.
Author: Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue Look
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Look
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Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.
Author: Benjamin Franklin Look
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One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Author: Sigmond Freud Look
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Author: Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9 Look
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12 Look
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