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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got...

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate i...

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But neither will anyone ask us whether we will it or do not will it when the spiritual strength of t...

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Martin HeideggerThe Self-Assertion of the German University

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects the...

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In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its be...

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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

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Maxwell MaltzThe New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two c...

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Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge...

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In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have dou...

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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other...

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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for orde...

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Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...

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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my str...

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victi...

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponen...

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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...

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Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes an...

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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of his...

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I will either be famous or infamous.

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminal...

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Otto WeiningerSex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing g...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himsel...

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely h...

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Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assig...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a ...

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I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living ...

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We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and n...

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I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save y...

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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirm...

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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious...

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First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strang...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes & A Sound of Thunder

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining ...

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Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its ra...

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National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform ...

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You exist only because God wills that you exist.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to wor...

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In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's s...

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If you run from technology, it will chase you.

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future its degree of...

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Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...

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You are one of the few successful persons I know.""Me? Why?""You know precisely what you are doing a...

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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of thos...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalida...

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All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo b...

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mi...

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I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsu...

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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions ha...

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Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to...

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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in...

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Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on '...

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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solv...

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Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatmen...

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