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Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as wh

Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. – William Hazlitt

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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. – William Hazlitt

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. – William Hazlitt

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Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. – Werner Erhard

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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. – Martin Luther

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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? – Socrates

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It is the final test of a gentleman—his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. – William Lyon Phelps, quoted in Golden Book Magazine, July 1935

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Gossip is natures telephone. – Sholom Aleichem

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Well, until this very day, Im still learning. – Dennis Brown

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In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960s. – Jim Lehrer

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. – Jim Valvano

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