Wise thoughts and quotes 3
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
Albert Camus
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
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You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
Tupac Shakur
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Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.
Robert A. Heinlein
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
C. S. Lewis
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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
Socrates
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Samuel Beckett
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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Buddha
