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“..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.”

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Eric Weiner is a renowned author, born in 1963. His works cover a range of topics including travel, culture, and society, known for their unique perspective and profound insights. more

“It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

Ifs Has Beens Ideas Stories Certain Hurt Silent Bottom Insight I Realized Despite Gossip Entertaining Observers Items Participants Getting Hurt

Author:Sherwood Smith

“Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.”

Ifs Men Soul Philosophy Action Purpose Can Do Practice Teaching Materials Activity Affair Rational Beast Combat Engaging Correcting Irrationality Public Affairs

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.”

Ifs Want Looks Grows Grass Meaning Of Life Soil Want Me Dirt You Want Me If You Want Me Six Feet Under

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.”

Men Reason Done Evil Worst Terrible Terrible Things Goodwill

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”

Ifs Firsts School Gone Lessons Achievement Sail Yale Semester

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.”

People Way Values Mistake Errors Wrong Way Knowledge Gained

Author:Benjamin Carson

“No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.”

Language Losing Choke

Author:Gregory Maguire

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