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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Believe Commitment Injustice Religion
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Attitude Believe Confidence Inspirational Positive Way
Men argue. Nature acts.
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Action Change Men Nature One Liner
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Change Men One Liner Situation Time Truth
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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