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I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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