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How about days off, one day but not today.
David Goggings
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"The diffuculty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."
John Maynard Kaynes
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." ~ Aristotle
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"Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another." ~ Euclid
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"The right question is usually more important than the right answer." ~ Plato
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"To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them." ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two." ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner." ~ Baron de Montesquieu
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"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." ~ Isaac Asimov
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"People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs." ~ Marianne Williamson
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"Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." ~ Mark Twain
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse." ~ John Stuart Mill
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
Albert Camus
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"Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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The truth is lived, not taught.
-Hermann Hesse
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
-Sun Tzu
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
-Sun Tzu