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“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy.”
Lao Tzu
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“Tao Te Ching”
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4th century BC
“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”
Paulo Coelho
,
“Veronika Decides to Die”
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1998
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.”
Mark Twain
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“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
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1884
“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”
Baruch Spinoza
,
“Ethics”
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1677
“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.”
Thomas Aquinas
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“Summa Theologica”
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1274
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The Great Gatsby”
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1925
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.”
Haruki Murakami
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“Kafka on the Shore”
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2002
“Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”
Ernest Hemingway
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“The Garden of Eden”
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1986
“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”
Aristotle
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“Poetics”
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c. 335 BC
“It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.”
Martin Luther
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“Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians”
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1535
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“Jane Eyre”
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16 October 1847
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
John Steinbeck
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“East of Eden”
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1952
“Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”
Søren Kierkegaard
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“Fear and Trembling”
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1843
“It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
“War and Peace”
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1869
“we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
J. K. Rowling
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“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
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2000
“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Game of Thrones”
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1996
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
John Maynard Keynes
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“The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”
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1936
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
Alexandre Dumas
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“The Count of Monte Cristo”
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1845
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
Henry Miller
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“Tropic of Cancer”
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1934
