William James

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

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E. D. Hulse

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

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Woody Allen

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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G Gaia

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

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Eric Hoffer

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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Peter Ustinov

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

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Aneurin Bevan

Virtue is its own punishment.

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William Lloyd

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

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