Thoughts Text – Set 5 – 2017

#1

Opportunists take now for an answer.

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#2

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

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#3

Only the educated are free.

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#4

Pleasant words are the food of love.

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#5

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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#6

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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#7

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

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#8

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

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#9

People say law but they mean wealth.

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#10

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They do too much to themselves, they las too long.

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#11

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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#12

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

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#13

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

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#14

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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#15

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

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#16

Power comes from sincere service

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#17

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

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#18

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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#19

Politeness is the art of selecting among one’s real thoughts.

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#20

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

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#21

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

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#22

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

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#23

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

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#24

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

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#25

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

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#26

Silence is the safety zone of conversation.

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#27

Silence is the ocean in which all the rivers of all the religions discharge themselves.

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#28

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

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#29

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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#30

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

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#31

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

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#32

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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#33

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

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#34

Renown and repose do not go together.

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#35

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

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#36

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

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#37

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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#38

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

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#39

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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#40

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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#41

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

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#42

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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#43

Talkers are no good doers

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#44

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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#45

Suspicion begets suspicion.

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#46

Supicion of one’s own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

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#47

I’m nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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#48

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

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#49

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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#50

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.