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• "The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration."
  By: Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930
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• "It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize."
  By: Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972
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• "We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Pulvis et umbra, 1888
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• "It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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• "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
  By: Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, 1916
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• "I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
  By: Richard P. Feynman
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• "Eloquence is vehement simplicity."
  By: Richard Cecil
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• "We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860
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• "People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841
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• "God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through."
  By: Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
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• "It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow ...if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes... And if you can source your own life from its presence."
  By: Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from The Invitation read the rest of the poem on her homepage
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• "Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones."
  By: Montesquieu, Variètès
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• "Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories."
  By: Montaigne, Essays, 1588
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• "We're all hookers. What matters is dignity."
  By: Mike Farren
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• "Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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