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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings

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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings

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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. – Chinese Proverb

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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all. – Giordano Bruno

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There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. – Proverb

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. – Theodor Herzl

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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. – Frank Herbert

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E.B. White, quoted in Israel Shenker, “E.B. White: Notes and Comment by Author,”

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