A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
Category: Quotes (page 2 of 8)
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[I like all my quotes but I LOVE this one]
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I can tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
Cormac McCarthy
Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.
Richard Holloway
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If you want to understand what an expanded consciousness looks like, all you have to do is have tea with a four-year-old.
Alison Gopnik
Author: David Shankbone: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nora_Ephron_cropped.jpg
When you slip on a banana peel people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.
Nora Ephron
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Knowledge comes from taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes from putting things together.
John A. Morrison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron#/media/File:The_Education_of_Achilles_1862_Delacroix.jpg
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Aldo Emerson
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You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
