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Quotations. I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than yourself.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.
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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
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If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.
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Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemorality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But the two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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