Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

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Carl Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

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John A. Field

I have been both rich and poor--while I have respect for both, I am unimpressed and unawed by both as well.

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Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

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William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

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Gerald R. Ford

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)

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Demosthenes

The fact speak for themselves.

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Lawrence Peter Berra

It's like deja vu all over again.

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Oscar Wilde

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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Holbrook Jackson

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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A. S. Neill

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

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