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Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

50 Cent

The empire fell well before the invasion of the barbarians. It collapsed from the collective softness of its citizens’ minds and the turning of their back on reality.

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Maya Angelou

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

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Mark Twain

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

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Aeschylus

Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.

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Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

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Adam Smith

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

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Aeschylus

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

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Adam Smith

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

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Adam Smith

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

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Adam Smith

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

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Rabindranath Tagore

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

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Ada Lovelace

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

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