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Gregory Bateson

Any living thing which triumphs in the struggle against its environment destroys itself.

Struggle | Wisdom |

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Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

The tools of the mind become burdens when the environment which made them necessary no longer exists.

Mind | Wisdom |

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Russell Baker. fully Russell Wayne Baker

We live in an environment whose principal product is garbage. The shined shoe in such a society is a hypocritical statement because it promotes the lie that we can thrive on garbage without being dirtied by it.

Society | Wisdom | Society |

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Eugene P. Bertin, fully Eugene Peter Bertin

Honest work bears a lovely face for it is the father of pleasure and the mother of good fortune. It is the keystone of prosperity and the sire of fame. And best of all, work is relief from sorrow and the handmaiden of happiness.

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Newton D. Baker, fully Newton Diehl Baker, Jr.

The man who graduates to-day and stops learning to-morrow is uneducated the day after.

Day | Learning | Man | Wisdom |

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Hal Borland, formally Harold Glen Borland

For all his learning or sophistication, man is still instinctively reaching toward that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

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Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning, but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.

Learning | Life | Life | Wisdom |

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Jean de La Bruyère

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.

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Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV of England

As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages another's virtues by detraction, and thine own vainglory. It is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the sin of devils, and devil of mankind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate it, God hate thee.

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Niels Bohr, fully Aage Niels Bohr

One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd.

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Progress is the mother of problems.

Mother | Problems | Progress | Wisdom |

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Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton

Employment, which Galen calls, "Nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

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Nicholas Murray Butler

There are five tests of the evidence of education - correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed habits of thought and action; sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards; power and habit of reflection, efficiency or the power to do.

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Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Success | Wisdom |

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Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

I am of opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences.

Experience | Mother | Opinion | Wisdom |

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James Herbert Case, Jr.

Peace is not the elimination of the causes of war. Rather it is a mastery of great human forces and the creation of an environment in which human aims may be pursued constructively.

Aims | Peace | War | Wisdom |

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

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