Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it.
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
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One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare.
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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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No great man ever thought himself so.
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it.
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To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
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For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it.
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We are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
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Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
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This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.
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Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
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Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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Our determination to imitate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is T. S.
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