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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. ↗

— David Baker

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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. ↗

— Rudolf Steiner

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