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I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

Theodore Roethke


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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries


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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

William Drummond of Hawthornden


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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Bertrand Russell


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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Albert Camus

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hermann Hesse


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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Will Rogers


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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth


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Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

Nicholas Sparks


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Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

Warren Bennis


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