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Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?

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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

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