Aphorisms
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Winston Churchill

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Carl Sandburg

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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

William Golding

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

William Osler

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Lao Tzu

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Maimonides

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Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

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