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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. —W. E. B. Du Bois 0 Innerworld 1 »
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep. —Zhuang Zhou 0 Innerworld 1 »
73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying, hang on to your hats, 7 and 3. —Sheldon Cooper 0 Innerworld 1 »
The world is a mirror of the soul and the soul a mirror of the world. —Alan Watts 0 Innerworld 1 »
Religion is above all a system of ideas by which men imagine the society of which they are members and the obscure yet intimate relations they have with it. —Emile Durkheim 0 Innerworld 1 »
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. —Thomas Sowell 0 Innerworld 1 »
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. ―Antonio Gramsci 0 Innerworld 1 »
Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right. —Henry Adams 0 Innerworld 1 »
Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself. —Miranda July 0 Innerworld 1 »
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. —Albert Einstein 0 Innerworld 1 »
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. —Charles Schulz 0 Innerworld 1 »
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. —Socrates 0 Innerworld 1 »
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. —Bob Marley 0 Innerworld 1 »
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. —Charles Dickens 0 Innerworld 1 »
The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. What matter where, if I be still the same, and what I should be, all but less then hee... —John Milton 0 Innerworld 1 »
...if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. —Henry Kissinger 0 Innerworld 1 »
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. —Charles Baudelaire 0 Innerworld 1 »
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state. —James Joyce (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. —James Joyce (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
I think the success of my work stems from being truthful... the more I let the character take over, the more I feel like that person. When you become the person, nothing is contrived.—Catherine O'Hara (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.—Steve Jobs (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. —Robert Frost (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies of different shapes and colors. Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity. —José Martí (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. —J. D. Salinger (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly. —Kobe Bryant (upload.wikimedia.org) 0 Innerworld 1 »
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