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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. -

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. – Matthew Arnold

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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. – Matthew Arnold

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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There is one quality more important than “know-how” and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is “know-what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954

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The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. – Will Smith

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. – Les Brown

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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. – Tertullian

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Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? – Mervyn Griffith-Jones

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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell

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