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» by Nagesh Belludi

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual
from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to
permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
* Lionel Trilling

True wisdom is less presuming than folly.
The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind;
the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not;
he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
* Akhenaton

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
* Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.
It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off,
and does something about it that makes a difference.
* Nolan Bushnell

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right,
for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
* William Jennings Bryan

There is no medicine like hope,
no incentive so great, no tonic so
powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
* Orison Swett Marden

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
* Albert Einstein

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures
or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
* Samuel Butler

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
* Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not
to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
* Cicero

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great,
is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
* Mark Yost

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant;
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
* Anne Bradstreet

To dare, To Will, To Know, To keep silent, To imagine
* Old Adage

Once you eliminate the impossible,
whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
* Arthur Conan Doyle

They are ill discoverers who think there is no land,
when they can see nothing but sea.
* Francis Bacon

It is by intuition that we discover, by logic that we prove.
* H Jules Poincare

In all thy undertakings,
let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavours;
if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.
* Akhenaton

We are ever free if we would only believe it,
only have faith enough. You are the soul,
free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed.
Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
* Swami Vivekananda

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
This is the interrelated structure of reality.
* Martin Luther King Jr.

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This is the sum of duty: do naught to others
which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
* Mahabharata

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger;
give, if thou art asked for little;
by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
* Dhammapada

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
* Herbert Agar

True strength lies in submission which permits one to
dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
* Henry Valentine Miller

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater;
let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life.
For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot,
turning from one to another.
* Rig Veda

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
* Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
* Bobby Knight

A wise man should keep far away from an unpleasant person,
from injuring others, from other’s views,
from unrighteous conduct and from untruth.
* Subhashita

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls.
And only stretched souls make music.
* Eric Hoffer

Many receive advice,
only the wise profit from it.
* Publilius Syrus

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If you wish your merit to be known,
acknowledge that of other people.
* Oriental proverb

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
We get very little wisdom from success, you know…
One who doesn’t try cannot fail and become wise.
* William Saroyan

Glory is fleeting,
but obscurity is forever.
* Napoleon Bonaparte

We are not creatures of circumstance;
we are creators of circumstance.
* Benjamin Disraeli

When you awaken some morning and hear that
somebody or other has been discovered,
you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago-
since which time he has been working,
toiling and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
* James Whitcomb Riley

A leader is a dealer in hope.
* Napoleon Bonaparte

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone
without getting a little on yourself
* Abigail van Buren

Knowledge speaks,
but wisdom listens.
* Jimi Hendrix

Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity
in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
* Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door
in the face of God.
* Charles Allen

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