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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

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The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

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The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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