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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Lane Allen

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. – Denis Diderot

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. – Soren Kierkegaard

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