What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. - John Lancaster Spalding

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I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

John Lancaster Spalding

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

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