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Philosopher, Writer, Activist

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Dependence - Difficulty

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Diplomat, Political Scientist, Historian

When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Appearance - Danger - Deal - Game - Management - Power - Reality - Sometimes - Support - Vigor

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Rajneesh

Guru

You cannot lose your real treasure.

Loss - Real - Treasure

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Certainty - Spirits

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Animals - Creativity - Danger - Health - Kindness - Loss - Madness - Man

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Actions - Activity - Caprice - Design - Expectation - Imagination - Persistence - Value - Virtue

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.

Chaos - Habit - Practice - Relaxing - Revenge - Uncertainty

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Rajneesh

Guru

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Creativity - Dependence - Giving - Help - Meditation - Songs

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Expectation - Philosophy

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President of the United States

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Loss

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

Border - Loss

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Jack London

Public Servant, Novelist, Author

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.

Ability - Certainty - Creativity - Facts - Imagination - Impression - Limits - Man - Oddity - Significance - Temperature - Trouble - Universe

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power - Rude - Weakness - Work

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Rajneesh

Guru

Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.

Cost - Crowd - Decision - Giving - Individual - Loss - Wants

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Francis Crick

Scientist, Scientist

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

Certainty - Genetics - Information - Virus

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Michel Foucault

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

Certainty - Human - Madness - Man - Problem

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

Actions - Dependence - Election - Grace - Human - Injustice - Man - Purpose - Sin - Waiting - Whole - Willing

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

Loss - Silence

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Bodhidharma

Buddhist Monk, 1st Chan Patriarch

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Fools - Imagination - Nature - People - Practice - Time

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