“ Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ”
- Edward Albee- Copy
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“ The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ”
- Stanislaw J. Lec- Copy
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“ Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ”
- Antonio Porchia- Copy
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“ It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ”
- John L. Mcclenahan- Copy
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“ I am a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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“ Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ”
- Antonio Porchia- Copy
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“ We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. ”
- Christopher Isherwood- Copy
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“ Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ”
- John Lancaster Spalding- Copy
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“ To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
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“ What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
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