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John Stuart Mill
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quote: Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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quote: Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one
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John Byrom
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quote: Thus adorned, the two heroes, twixt shoulder and elbow, Shook hands and went to t; and the word it was bilbow.
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J.J. Sylvester
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quote: The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned
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Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant
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quote: Although every flower may possess, secondarily, its own specific symbolism, for all that, flowers generally are symbols of the passive principle. The calix of a flower, like the chalice, is the receptacle of heavenly instrumentality, among the symbols of
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