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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
Author: John Steinbeck
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
Author: Renata Adler
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I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Author: Tony Arata
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Author: Charles Darwin
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.
Author: Ch'ao Chang
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Author: Issac Asimov
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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Author: Alfred Adler
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Constancy is the foundation of virtue.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2].
Author: Bible
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevski
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The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Author: Charles Darwin
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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Author: Neil Armstrong
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Author: Martin Luther King
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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.
Author: Itzhak Bentov
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Author: Carl W. Buechner
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Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.
Author: Aesop
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
Author: Democritus
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Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.
Author: Babyface
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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
Author: Frederick G. Banting
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Author: William S. Burroughs
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Author: Gandhi
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Author: Martin Luther King
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Author: Tupac Shakur
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Author: Aeschylus
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The wise learn many things from their foes.
Author: Aristophanes
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The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.
Author: Unknown
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As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
Author: Giacomo Casanova
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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Author: Unknown
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