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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Author: Bryan Appleyard
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The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.
Author: R. L. Gregory
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Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
Author: Johnny Miller
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I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Author: Antonio Banderas
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Author: Eduardo Galeano
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You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
Author: Ralph Marston
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.
Author: J. B. Yeats
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
Author: Silius Italicus
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Author: John Locke
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Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
Author: John Barbour
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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Author: Henry Bolingbroke
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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Author: William C. Clegg
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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
Author: Richard Cobden
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
Author: Ram Dass
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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
Author: Dhammapada
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Author: Ilya G. Ehrenburg
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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
Author: Alan Dean Foster
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Author: Noam Chomsky
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Author: Aleister Crowley
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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Author: E. R. Beadle
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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
Author: Haneef Fatmi
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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
Author: Angie Everhart
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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
Author: Irving Batcheller
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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
Author: George Duhamel
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Author: William Cowper
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Author: Joseph De Maistre
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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Author: Stanislaw J. Lem
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It's good to shut up sometimes.
Author: Marcel Marceau
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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Author: Louis Pasteur
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Author: Sallust
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Author: Anonymous
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Author: Seneca
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Great minds think alike.
Author: Anonymous
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Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Author: Anonymous
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Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Author: Anonymous
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Author: Denis Diderot
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In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
Author: David Mamet
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Author: Will Cuppy
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Author: Anonymous
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Author: Christopher Morley
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.
Author: William Osler
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To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
Author: Abraham Maslow
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Author: Michael Leboeuf
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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Author: Jack Dixon
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You can only be free if I am free.
Author: Clarence Darrow
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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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