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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed


William James

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JOHANN MOST If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in t...
JOHANN MOST Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
JOHANN MOST Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists beca...
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
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DONNY MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - '...
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SAM MOST As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and ...
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JOSEPH FINK I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. So...
SABRINA WARD HARRISON Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whali...
MELVIN MADDOCKS Most of the folks who come, they're not truly homeless. They just don't have much, and some are just...
GARY HECHT The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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ROBERT AUSTIN The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a cro...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizin...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity a...
DAVID NOVAK My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
SIMON NEWCOMB You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, e...
HANNAH HARRINGTON Every man has two educations – that which is given to him, and the other, that which he gives to h...
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SOURCE UNKNOWN the most soulless place I had ever been . . It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely.
KARL ROVE This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two m...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!
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JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
ROGER FEDERER There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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DENIS WAITLEY The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help ano...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured asp...
CHRIS MATAKAS Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured asp...
CHRIS MATAKAS Self acceptance is one of the most difficult and one of the most rewarding goals you can accomplish.
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RUSSELL BAKER What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.
KAMI GARCIA One of the stereotypes I feel in society ... is that most black men are violent.
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DANIELLE STEEL Isn't it funny how you can be alone or in a crowd full of people and still feel lonely.
VICTORIA BOGARIN I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this t...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...
WENDELL BERRY It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exa...
SUSAN HAMPSHIRE The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES To get the most out of a life's journey, one has to positively live through its humbling and gloriou...
WAYNE CHIRISA It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help ano...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that w...
CRISS JAMI It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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CYRIL CONNOLLY Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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L. SCHEFER What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
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FRANK HERBERT Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
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CHARLES WEASEL The thing that can be the most evil and most kind is within you, yet you choose which you will becom...
RYAN THACKER My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill
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JOHN WOODEN Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially fr...
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WILLIAM JAMES Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible
WILLIAM JAMES Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is pur...
WILLIAM JAMES No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
WILLIAM JAMES