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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

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We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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The poet ... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it's all that matters.

- Audrey Hepburn

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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

- Mary Richards

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You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

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