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«The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.»
«You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.»
«Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.»
Author: James Buckham
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«Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
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«Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Reading
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«The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he tak»
«Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«There are three arts which are concerned with all things; one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them»
«Sweet are the uses of adversity.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Adversity
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«Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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