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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Knowledge
Laurence Sterne

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
Knowledge
Ray Stevens

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Truth
Wallace Stevens

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Progress
Adlai E. Stevenson

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Power
Adlai E. Stevenson

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Understanding
Adlai E. Stevenson

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Age and Aging
Adlai E. Stevenson

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Youth
Robert Louis Stevenson

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Fear
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
Sin
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
World
Robert Louis Stevenson

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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Company
Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
Slander
Mary Stewart

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I wish I knew what I know now before.
Knowledge
Rod Stewart

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Trust
Henry Lewis Stimson

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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Creativity
Sting

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Adversity
Sting

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A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Berg?re and looks at the audience.
Psychiatry
Bishop Mervyn Stockwood

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
Marriage
Richard Henry Stoddard

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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Books - Reading
Fred Stoller

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Action
W. Clement Stone

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun