"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
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"Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another."
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"It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms."
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"History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis."
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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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"The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it."
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"Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation."
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"You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."
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"Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage."
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"Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives."
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"I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does."
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"They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality."
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"Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty."
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"True suffering does not know itself and never calculates."
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"The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth."
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"It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great."
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"In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed."
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"The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty."
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"Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness."
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"The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither"
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