"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.”
“... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.”
“I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.”
“I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.”
“But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.”

Source : John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”
“A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”
“I think itâ€™s odd how itâ€™s mirrored my life so much.”
“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

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