"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.“
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth."
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"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
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"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."
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"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."
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"It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?"
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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