The Talmud

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

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Paul Valery

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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Paul Pearsall

We come to feel as we behave.

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Oswald Mosley

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

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Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

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Charles Horton Cooley

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

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Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

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Voltaire

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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