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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

~John Mason

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I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.

Confucius

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Grow a tree for ten years; grow men for a hundred.
Wise Chinese Proverb

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. II

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“Let knowledge not be the end in itself. Let action follow it.”

M. K. Soni

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La traduction ne saurait transmettre la sonorité, la souplesse, l'impact inventif, mais on la sent assez attentive pour déplier en nous l'élan qui active l'imagination poétique à défaut de pouvoir s'exercer directement dans la chair de notre langue.

(Bernard Noèl )

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English writer

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"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." -

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian Epic Poet, Philosopher

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Mae West (1892-1980) US actor

A man's kiss is his signature.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Georges Bernard Shaw

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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Jules Michelet, French Historian

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

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Gloria Steinem, American Feminist

I can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother teresa of Calcutta

Give a fish to a man; he has food for a day.
Teach a man to fish; he learns a skill for life.

chinese

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.

Mark Amidon

A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.

arab proverb

Proverbs are the lamp of speech.

arab saying

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Mary Renault

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(1905-1983) English writer

Albert Einstein:

It’s not that I’m so smart,
it’s just that I stay with problems longer

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LOve is the Only sane and satisfactOry answer tO the prOblem Of human existence.

Eric FrOmm

I agree with Eric Fromm.
Thanks for sharing it with us.Have a good time.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

dOn QuixOte

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

miguel de cervantes

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself”

Miguel de Unamuno
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Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849) Irish writer

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A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832) German poet & philosopher

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

A useless life is an early death.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

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]John William Gardner 1912-2002,
American public official, U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare (1965-68)

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
African Proverb

To teach is to learn twice.

- Joseph Joubert

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