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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Humor
Joseph Joubert

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Proverbs
Joseph Joubert

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
God
Joseph Joubert

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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert

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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Spirit and Spirituality
Joseph Joubert

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Words
Joseph Joubert

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Jowett

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Achievement
Benjamin Jowett

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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Nations
James Joyce

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Arts and Artists
James Joyce

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mistakes
James Joyce

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Churches
James Joyce

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Mothers
James Joyce

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Heaven
James Joyce

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It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Gifts
Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
Security
H. Stanley Judd

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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
Committees and Meetings
Carl Jung

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Passion
Carl Jung

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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Addiction
Carl Jung

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Imitation
Carl Jung

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Age and Aging
Carl Jung

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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Chaos
Carl Jung

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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Perspective
Carl Jung

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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Adventure
Carl Jung

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