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Quote: Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Mark Twain
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Quote: The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
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Stephen Hawking
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The universe is not...

Quote: Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Mark Twain
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Honesty is the best...

Quote: I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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John Muir
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Quote: Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
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Mother Teresa
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Quote: If you didn’t learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?
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Marcus Aurelius
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If you didn’t learn...

Quote: It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Yogi Berra
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Quote: Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.
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Rumi
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Quote: I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.
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George Carlin
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Quote: I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Quote: Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Aristotle
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Men acquire particular quality...

Quote: Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
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Nelson Mandela
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Communists have always played...

Quote: No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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No man loses his...

Quote: Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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Buddha
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Quote: A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
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George Orwell
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A scrupulous writer, in...

Quote: You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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You may never know...

Quote: I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.
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John Muir
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Quote: I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Voltaire
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Quote: Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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Author:
George Orwell
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Society has always to...

Quote: I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: An unexamined life is not worth living.
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Socrates
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Quote: That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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