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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of loss of power.” -John Steinbeck
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the...
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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” –Joan Didion
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” -Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mystery of Marie Roget”
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers
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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” – Thomas Carlyle
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“I postpone death by living, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” – Anais Nin
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“With freedom of the press, nations are not sure of going toward justice and peace. But without it, they are sure of not going there.” – Albert Camus
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“The only public good is that which assures the private good of the citizens.” – Simone de Beauvoir
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“I may not have been sure about what did really interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.” – Albert Camus
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“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Viktor Frankl
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“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt,...
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“Man is a rational – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, nut so far I have not had the good fortune to come across...
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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” – Bertrand Russell
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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” – Buddha
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“It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.” – Aldous Huxley
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“How much better is silence, the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this...
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In a world increasingly defined by complexity and noise, how can we cultivate an appreciation for :”bare things” and simple moments without losing sight of the broader dynamics that shape our lives? –...
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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” –...
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“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from...
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzche
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“The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.” – Rene Descartes
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‘Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.” – Anton Chekhov
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“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” – Sun Tzu
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“What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question, one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead...
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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” – Marting Heidegger
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” -James Branch Cabell
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