I never resist temptation because I have found things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
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Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.'
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I went to the eye doctor and found out I needed glasses for reading. So, I got some flip up contact lenses.
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History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found. HOOD. _Sonnet, Silence._ The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife..
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Jack You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch are you
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To fall'n humanity our Father said, That food and bliss should not be found unsought; That man should labor for his daily bread; But not that man should toil and sweat for nought.
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Where the determination is, the way can be found.
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If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home sickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
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Not everyone is attracted to politics?. [S]cholars found that more than half the adults in Wayne County (Detroit) Michigan thought that politics was dirty and dishonest. Nearly half the political volunteers and political workers in the county thought so
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Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all the apathy of human beings.
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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