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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doe

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti

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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

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Modern, Modernism
Author
Elias Canetti
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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Quotations
Author
Elias Canetti
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Legacy
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Elias Canetti
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Other Quotes from
Goodness
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A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. – St. Basil

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Goodness

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed — and not for pay? Absurd — or insincere? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Goodness

If you cant return a favor, pass it on. – Louise Brown

Category:
Goodness

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. – Phillips Brooks

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Goodness

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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! – Arianna Huffington

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Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother&#

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