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To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.


Leopold Stein

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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GEORGE MACDONALD To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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GERMANY KENT Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h...
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CHERYL RUSHTON The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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C.S. LEWIS African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.
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AL GOLDSTEIN What you believe should not stop where your understanding ends
SOTONYE ANGA When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
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VANESSA FERLITO The game is meant to be fun.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
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WILLIAM DONELSON The gamecock proudly stepped into the slaughterhouse.
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AHMED ALI ANJUM I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
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CASSANDRA GIOVANNI He learned to be more patient and more pragmatic and more open-minded.
GHAZI HAMID By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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1. Be forward thinking
2. Be inventive, and daring GERMANY KENT You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals sho...
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DEBASISH MRIDHA Advice to my younger self:

1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hur...
GERMANY KENT Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
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BEN BROWN One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. ...
SIMON SINEK By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be generous with your
time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
the other p...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI

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BEN STEIN Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEIN I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the be...
BEN STEIN My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over ...
BEN STEIN I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy...
BEN STEIN The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you wan...
BEN STEIN Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even ...
BEN STEIN You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, eve...
BEN STEIN It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the...
BEN STEIN Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child ...
BEN STEIN Romance is everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...
BEN STEIN Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few...
GERTRUDE STEIN Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows ...
GERTRUDE STEIN