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Helen Keller quote: "The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has..."
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. Helen Keller
Aldous Huxley quote: "These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But..."
These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. Aldous Huxley
...for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least? Rainer Maria Rilke
It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himsel? loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth. Nelson Algren
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade. Doug Coupland
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. Robert Schumann
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. Henry David Thoreau
We'll be there, Harry," said Ron"What?"At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going."No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone. "You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens. J. K. Rowling
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. Thomas More
Harry S. Truman quote: "Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of..."
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. Harry S. Truman
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it. John Stuart Mill
William Shakespeare quote: "Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know..."
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves. William Shakespeare
Suzanne Collins quote: "I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really..."
I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good. Suzanne Collins
This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I must' then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings. Andre Gide

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