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    What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

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Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

by Anonymous Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive read more

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

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Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the read more

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.

by Ojibwa Saying Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly read more

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

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Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

by Lewis Grizzard Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

by Ilya G. Ehrenburg Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

by Walter Prager Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

by Og Mandino Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

by Heywood Brown Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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