When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Siri Hustvedt
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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Zadie Smith
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
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Clare Francis
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
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A.E. Housman
More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....
