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“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.”

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Jean de La Fontaine, a French poet, was born on July 8, 1621, and died on April 13, 1695. He is one of the representatives of French classical literature and is known for his fable poems. more

“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”

Thinking Needs Problem Form Term Principles Movement Possibility Involved Reactions Spite Controlled Constructive Comprehensive Surveys Isms

Book:Experience And Education

Source: Experience And Education

“...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.”

Chance Ability Chances Are

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

Ifs Men Mets Lucky Delusion Another Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.”

Thinking Mind Nations Destiny Teaching Profession Effectiveness Thinking Mind

Author:David O. McKay

“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”

Funny Science Evolution Advantage Accidents

Author:Isaac Asimov

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

Knows Men Book Given Draws Ears Access

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”

Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles

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