Category: philosopher
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
Noam Chomsky
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
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Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Thomas Aquinas