Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
J. G. Holland
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
John Tillotson
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Plato
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.
John Stuart Mill
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
William Shakespeare
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Salvador Dali
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
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A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'
Conan O'Brien
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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
William Shakespeare
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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
Emily Dickinson
