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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds r

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving

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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. – Washington Irving

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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others eyes for an instant? – Henry David Thoreau

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I dont get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, theres always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. – Julia Roberts

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A great figure or physique is nice, but its self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. – Vivica Fox

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4 – Bible

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. – Lao Tzu

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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. – John Charles Polanyi

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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