Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson … - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

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It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

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It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

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I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

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