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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of n

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. – Oscar Wilde

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. – Oscar Wilde

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Sympathy
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Oscar Wilde
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde

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Paradox
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings

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Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital… the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. – Amory Lovins

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Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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