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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still." »Lewis Thomas
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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." »Brendan Francis Behan
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"unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality." »Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
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"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." »Blaise Pascal
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"It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses." »Seneca
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"When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." »Aristotle
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"It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth." »Seneca
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"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth." »Seneca
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"We are unable to envision death without the life within us which is full aware of it." »Sorin Cerin
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"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." »Andr Gide
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"What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read." »G.K. Chesterton
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"Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern." »John Saul
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"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann
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"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage." »Ronald Reagan
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"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." »G. K. Chesterton
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"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body." »Mildred & Victor Goertzel
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"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." »Mario M Cuomo
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"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life." »James Goldsmith
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"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley
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