Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success will be sure.
~ Mark Twain
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~ George Santayana
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It wasn’t the New World that mattered … Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James Baldwin
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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
~ Mark Twain
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
~ Janet Malcolm
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