Category: philosopher
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
John Muir
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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
Noam Chomsky
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin