“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do.”
Journalist Walter Bagehot, quoted in the London Guardian
“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do ‘practice’?”
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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.”
Washington Irving, quoted in the Associated Press
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted in the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoted in The Huffington Post
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