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If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent c

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. – Elbert Hubbard

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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. – Elbert Hubbard

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A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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I know not what phantom we take for self…. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. – Noam Chomsky

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We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. – Paul Eldridge

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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. – Thomas Hardy

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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. – C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939

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