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"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit." »Samuel Johnson
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"Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." »D. H. Lawrence
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"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." »Audre Lorde
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"genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." »T. S. Eliot
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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." »Oscar Wilde
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"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow." »Joseph Conrad
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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others." »Dag Hammarskjold
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"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter." »William Shakespeare
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"genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." »Charles Spencer
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"genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." »William Bridges
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"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before." »Kin Hubbard
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"The real and genuine wisdom that man can benefit most is the one which leads to everlasting happiness after death ,anything else is vanity." »adelkeri
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"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading." »Rufus Choate
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"No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth." »Goethe
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"Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon." »Archibald Cox
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery." »Henry Miller
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"Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas." »Eric Bentley
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"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces." »Austin O'Malley
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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." »Albert Einstein
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"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form." »Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
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"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"“Love in its most genuine sense, can only flourish if it is FREE. We, as people, can only flourish if we are free."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen." »Abd Er-Rahman III
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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. Self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse." »Unknown
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