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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.


Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

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Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer wi...
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GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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FREDERICK BUECHNER When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving the...
EMMANUEL JAL I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
ANDREW VACHSS Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
NIELS BOHR You do not have to like someone to respect them - nor do you have to respect someone to like them
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.
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, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep
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NEIL GAIMAN If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
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Just figure out what works for you!
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AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
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QUI-GON TO ANAKIN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
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ESSIE DAVIS The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
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BERNARD BARUCH In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everythin...
BERNARD BARUCH The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use i...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before ...
BERNARD BARUCH Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism. People want to be treated as adults. They...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best ...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF This is a case where they did an exceptionally good job on the natural science and a really poor job...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't know if the learning is as systematic as it needs to be.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowa...
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