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We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. ↗

— Aberjhani

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I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

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Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher—as it seems to us, my friends?—lives "unphilosophically" and "unwisely," above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The more I learn, the more I yearn. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

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Sometimes it's hard to believe what we are really. ↗

— Riyadh Razzaq

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I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers on a new path to find. So for now I'll continue to drop ink and not worry about what other people think. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition of life. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Question for your life: If Socrates had a clone, would he advise that clone to know thy self, or to know myself, with myself in this case being himself? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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