For all you lurkers with a low post count

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Bore: n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

 

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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

 

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

 

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

 

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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

 

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

 

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People will pay for the privilege of working harder than they will work when they are paid.

 

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To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

 

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Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure ... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. -

 

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In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.

 

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

 

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

 

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The reason why worry kills more people than hard work is that more people worry than work.

 

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Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

 

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

 

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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

 

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Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

 

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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

 

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

 

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The great art of life is the sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.