How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.


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If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the ...
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...
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Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to w...
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the...
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura ...
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