"The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness."
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"Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is."
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"Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on."
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"All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes."
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"The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind."
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"True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others."
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"With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy."
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"A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience."
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"Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else."
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"What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport."
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"Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?"
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"Only when you question does society move or advance at all."
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"A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it."
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"We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her."
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"Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning."
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"Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore."
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"If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good."
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"When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause"
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"A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion."
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"The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]"
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