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Quote by Arthur Balfour
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, th

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. – Arthur Balfour

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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Mankind, Man
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Arthur Balfour
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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Art
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

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Truth

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich… The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever. – Michael Moore

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Truth

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. – James A. Baldwin

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Truth

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Effort

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain

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Eating

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. – Max Beerbohm, “Hosts and Guests,” 1918

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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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Neighbors