"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
-Edward Gibbon
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
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"I was never less alone than when by myself."
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
-Coco Chanel
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
-Woody Allen
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
-Albert Camus
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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