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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Listen, Mankind, Reasons

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Against, Existence, Argument

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Heart, Sensitive, Wounded

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

Trouble, Criticism, Praise

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
John Gray

Women, Stress, Problems

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.
Will Smith

Work, Good, Job

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

Roses, Diamonds, Table

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Humanity, Seem, Becoming

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men, Fear, Evil

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Choice

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Nature, History, Poetry

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

Often, Property, Houses

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Clothes, Beware, Require

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sometimes, Tell

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

Able, Appreciate

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

Hope, Learned, Entertain

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

Cannot, Far, Once

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Government, United, University

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell

Government, Real, Goal

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Knowledge, Wisdom, Justice

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Wish

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Success, Future

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Away, Learn

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

Love, Silence, Words

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

Work, End, Humble

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Today, Revenge

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela

Dying, Blood, Leaders

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
Adele

Happy, Nice, Friends

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Nation, Action, Curse

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer

Time, Live, Rules

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