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Yiddish Proverb


If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Anais Nin


Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

the Dhammapada


If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Dane Helmers


Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.

Oscar Wilde


What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Marion Garretty


Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Thomas Carlyle


Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605


Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

H.L. Mencken


The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Edward Harriman


Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

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