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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt
Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy. Ayn Rand
Richard Carlson quote: "Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for..."
Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success. Richard Carlson
George Orwell quote: "He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and..."
He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable. George Orwell
Italo Calvino quote: "The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural..."
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. Italo Calvino
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. John Steinbeck
Mark Twain quote: "The two most important days in your life are the day you are..."
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain
John Rawls quote: "[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive..."
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. John Rawls
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century. Manolo Blahnik
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little..."
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. Friedrich Nietzsche
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. Haruki Murakami
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. Thomas Sowell
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time."
Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. Diana Wynne Jones
Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God. Charles Spurgeon
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidan? My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known? no wonder, then, that I return the love. Soren Kierkegaard

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