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'Il bruno il bel non toglie'
Italian proverb. meaning: Dark skin does not beauty remove.
Italian proverb. meaning: Dark skin does not beauty remove.

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On Argument
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Dewey
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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On Change and Growth
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self
Aldous Huxley
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
American proverb
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck
We know what we are, but know not what we may be
William Shakespeare
Aldous Huxley
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
American proverb
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck
We know what we are, but know not what we may be
William Shakespeare

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Sometimes its easier knowing you love, than to know you're being loved.
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." — Aristotle

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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius

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A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men." John August
Is cherished by the wisest men." John August

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