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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

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We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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The poet ... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

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The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.

- Jack Harris

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Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

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