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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

To be a philosopher is

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not 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.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the road to wisdom,

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be it a house, be

Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family!
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

I thank God for the

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
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Yar Chaikovsky

Yar Chaikovsky

You really need to focus

You really need to focus on, are you willing to back it up with litigation, because you cannot monetize through licensing without being willing to incur the risk of litigation,” Mr. Chaikovsky explained. “If you are not willing to put up a fight, everyone else knows that therefore you cannot monetize your patent.”
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François de La Rochefoucauld

François de La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy triumphs easily over past

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have a footprint,

If you have a footprint, be happy, because it means that you aren’t a shadow!
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

What we do belongs to

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes the world sits at

Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!
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Charles Peguy

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Four things a man must

Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearly;To love his fellow-men sincerely;To act from honest motives purely;To trust in God and Heaven securely.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The edge of a precipice...

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!
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Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Any genuine philosophy leads to

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bad is always afraid of

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Use what talents you possess;

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is something softer than

There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!
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William James

William James

There is only one thing

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Golden bridge, silver bridge or

Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn’t matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

What you possess in the

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
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Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man needs air, man needs

Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
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Fontenelle

Fontenelle

A true philosopher is like

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Shandulo Joseph

Shandulo Joseph

America, every black men's dream.

America, every black men's dream. Africa, every black men's home
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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

There is no personal charm

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

These Negroes, they're getting pretty

These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.
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