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• Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it
  to Sailors.

  James Lawrence

  Sailor, Navigation, Easy

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• Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.

  Janet Burroway

  Regret, Writing, Reflection

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• I came to the United States because I valued living as a free person, one who is able to advocate in a democratic society. Unfortunately, the U.S. has been turning into a less free society, a police and surveillance state, especially after 9/11.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Surveillance State, Police, United States

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• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  Bobby Fischer

  Cells, Mind, Coward

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. May 24, 1999.

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• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Evil, World

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Laughing, Complicated, Cry

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 442), 1987.

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, Fire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Memories, Heart, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 373, 1895.

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• Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Numbers, World

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Guests, Carving

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

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• The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

  Willa Cather

  Notebook, Attitude, Heart

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Age, Goes On

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Men, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

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• We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

  Aristotle

  Order, Opposites, Practice

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• One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

  Mortimer Adler

  Reading, Effort, Range

  "How to Read a Book". Book by Mortimer Adler, 1940.

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• Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

  Alvin Toffler

  Future, Men, Data

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

  Mencius

  People, Feelings, Human Nature

  The Book of Mencius bk. 6, pt. 1, v. 6

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• O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

  Peg Bracken

  Funny Things, People, Awful

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Scales, Ought

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.9, 谷月社

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• I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Team, School

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Player, Two

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• If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

  Stacy London

  Love You, Reality, Dresses

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.11, Penguin

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• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Artist, People

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• Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Beautiful, Lying, Want

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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