Year: 2013
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Quotes about Truth
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. – Albert Einstein Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha Even if you are a minority of…
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Epicurus Quotes
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by aponia, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. Born: 341 BC, Samos, Greece Died: 270 BC,…
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Democritus Quotes
Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. A pupil of Leucippus, he was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher who formulated an atomic theory for the universe. Many consider Democritus to be the “father of modern science”. Born: 460 BC, Abdera, Greece Died: 370 BC Nationality: Greek Do not trust all men, but…
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Deepak Chopra Quotes
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American physician, a holistic health/New Age guru, and alternative medicine practitioner.He is the author of more than 65 books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Born: October 22, 1947, New Delhi Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want…
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Quotes about Marriage
A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace. -Darlene Schacht The goal in marriage is not to think alike,but to think together. – Robert C Dodds Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things…
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Born: May 6, 1856, Príbor, Czech Republic Died: September 23, 1939, London, United Kingdom Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the…
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George Eliot Quotes
Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of…
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Lord Byron Quotes
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron’s best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and the short lyric “She Walks in Beauty.”…
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Born: June 19, 1856, Bloomington, Illinois, United States Died: May 7, 1915, Republic of Ireland A…
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Stephen Hawking Quotes
Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist. In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at…
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Sun Tzu Quotes
Sun Tzu or Sunzi was a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher during the Zhou dynasty’s Spring and Autumn Period.The name he is best known by is an honorific meaning “Master Sun”: Sun Tzu was born as Sun Wu and known outside his family by the style name Changqing. He is traditionally credited as the…
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Heraclitus Quotes
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. Heraclitus propounded a distinctive theory which he expressed in oracular language. He is best known for his doctrines that things are constantly changing. Big results require big ambitions. Always having what we…