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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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Death - Leadership - Sadness - Silence

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Encouragement - Family - Friendship - Happiness - Insight - Inspiration - Love - Motivation - Reality

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Alexander Pope

Poet

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Death

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Harper Lee

Novelist

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Adulthood - Death - Good - Linguistics - Production

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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual

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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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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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H. G. Wells

Writer

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Death - Drive - History - Mindset - Value

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Age - Death - Sarcasm - Sickness

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Death - Destroying - Memory

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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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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Blessing - Curse - Death - Man - Wellness

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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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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Death

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Death - Making - Mindset - Wellness

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John Stuart Mill

Philosopher, Political Economist, Civil Servant

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Actions - Dependence - Value

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