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Quotes and aphorisms on gratitude

Quotes and aphorisms on gratitude, a collection of ideas to recognize emotions to express appreciation for what is important for living together gratefully. Every year, September 21 is World Gratitude Day, a …

Latin and English

Latin and English. Latin words, phrases, sentences, quotes, or abbreviations still used in the English language with a comparison between the two languages, some useful links to other posts and resources. Latin …

Thanksgiving and gratitude quotes

Thanksgiving and gratitude quotes, a collection of aphorisms for Thanksgiving Day to remind us the true and powerful effect of a genuine spirit of thankfulness. Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness …

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is the first Monday following Black Friday and it’s a fantastic shopping event. The first Monday right after Black Friday is called Cyber Monday in United States of America. It …

Black Friday Day

Black Friday day falls every year on the first Friday after Thanksgiving, the day of Thanksgiving, a typical holiday in the United States and celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. In …

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day, history, quotes and typical food. In the United States it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November each year and marks the beginning of the holiday season. Thanksgiving Day …

100 outstanding quotes

100 outstanding quotes, that is 100 eminent, excellent, exceptional, famous, great, important, impressive, magnificent, special, superlative, well-known aphorisms and quotations. Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. (It’s not true that we …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Some people are right, you don't need to be educated to vegetate. Carl William Brown

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

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Daimonology-synthetic-principles

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

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Carl William Brown

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown

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