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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
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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
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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 greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
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
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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