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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Kindness, Men, Garden

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• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Knowledge, People

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.42

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Average, America

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.142, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Ian Mckellen

  People, Australia And New Zealand, Lord

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• I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

  Mia Kirshner

  Thinking, Sexuality, Coming Out

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  All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

  James Thurber

  Running, Learning, Humor

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Experience, Stories

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Lying, Innovation, Trying

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• You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

  Fred Frith

  Years, Musician, Firsts

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• Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Important, Criminals, Catching

  Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken

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• Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Law, Reason, Faculty

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

  Josiah Warren

  Common, Radical, Sentiments

  Josiah Warren (1852). “Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society”, p.105

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Musical, Common Experience, Fields

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• It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Writing, Discovery

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• Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

  Jim Rohn

  Art, Way To Live, Lifestyle

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 28, 2016

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• When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Truth, Challenges, Mind

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• Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Law, Facts

  "Notebooks on Transmutation of Species".

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Passion

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• With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Queens, Years, Black

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• He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Magic

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Mind, Environmental

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Eye, Mind

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.100, Ravenio Books

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