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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗


— William Godwin


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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ↗


— William Godwin


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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ↗


— William Godwin


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Character develops itself in the stream of life. ↗


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. ↗


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. ↗


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization leaders have found each other, gotten all involved in each others' social lives, and have ended up talking to nobody but each other. They have not found their followers. Everything tends to degenerate into ineffective cliques, as a natural course. There is no normal public life. Just the mechanics of people learning what s going on is so difficult. It all makes the simplest social gain extra hard for these people. ↗


— Jane Jacobs


#death

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ↗


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. ↗


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ↗


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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