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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built...
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the...
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The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it...
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind...
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who...
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They...
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Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to...
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are...
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Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This...
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are...