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Seeing, John Lubbock

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

Advice, Persian Proverb

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Az in guš mi-girad, az ân guš dar mi-konad. Translation: In at one ear and out at the other. English equivalent: Advice most needed are th...

Affliction, John Brown

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Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud which wraps the present ...

1914, Konrad Adenauer

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Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, . . . thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth—...

Art, Theodor Adorno

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The coming extinction of art is prefigured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events. - Theodor Adorno in Minima M...

Reality, Edgar Allan Poe

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Quotes·Quotations by Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Sir J. Lubbock

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Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we ...

Worry, Nepali Proverb

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न बिराउनु न डराउनु । Transliteration: Na biraunu na darau nu. Meaning; If you do right things, you don't have to worry. English equiv...

Life, Simone de Beauvoir

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ...

China, Winston Churchill

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The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: "China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it". There...