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our religion is what you do when the sermon is over. Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with SOMETHING OF VALUE ↗

— Robert Ruark

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. ↗

— Goethe

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Ideas are the source of all things ↗

— Plato

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