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«Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Generosity,
Happiness,
Sharing
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«To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Being Trusted,
Compliments,
Love,
Trust
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«This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Love
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«The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.»
«Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.»
«There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
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«This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.»
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