"What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit."
Jewel
"To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks."
Thomas Mallon
"500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of 'vision,' anddarkness helps us 'see."
Alija Izetbegović
"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
A. J. Liebling
"I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse."
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
"If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal."
Steven Merle Scott
"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."
Paul Gallico
"Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration."
William Hazlitt
"The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth."
Anonymous
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain."
Robert G. Ingersoll
"All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path."
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