"The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself."
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"Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?"
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"Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power."
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"The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal."
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"It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame."
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"I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws."
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"He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya."
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"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]"
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"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
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"Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does."
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"Everything a brand does is advertising."
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"It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich."
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"Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does."
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"If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen."
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"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
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"The United States has done some very good things in the world, and that does not change the fact that the World Court was quite correct in condemning the United States as an international terrorist state."
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"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
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"It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir."
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?"
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