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• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell) [fear/source/superstition/fear]
• The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed. (Roger Bannister) [source/power/beauty/source]
• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. (Claude M. Bristol) [source/wealth]
• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. (Samuel Butler) [source/truth]
• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. (Thomas Carlyle) [source]
• Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. () [source/literature/people/inspiration]
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad) [source/evil/men]
• The only source of knowledge is experience. (Albert Einstein) [source/knowledge/experience]
• A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. (Milton Friedman) [source/economy/group/market]
• Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. (Oliver Goldsmith) [source/bliss]
• A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. (Oliver Goldsmith) [source/present/past/future]
• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. (Dag Hammarskjold) [journey/journey/source/being]
• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. (Vaclav Havel) [source/measure/human/control]
• Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls. (Ernest Hemingway) [source/men/women/sale]
• It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. (Eric Hoffer) [child/source]
• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ( Horace) [source]
• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. (Samuel Johnson) [happiness/wife/source]
• Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. (Mary McCarthy) [disease/evil/source/spirit]
• Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. (Mary McCarthy) [disease/evil/source/spirit]
• In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes. ( Plato) [knowledge/form/source/light]
• Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. (John Ruskin) [competition/direction/source]
• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell) [fear/source/superstition/fear]
• The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. (Ernest Rutherford) [atom/thing/source/power]
• A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. (Sydney Smith) [source/happiness/health/conscience]
• The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (Mark Twain) [source/joy/sorrow]
• If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles. (Evelyn Waugh) [conversation/source/opinion]
• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. (Oscar Wilde) [/source/fortune]
• So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could. (Blair Underwood) [source/source/pride/movie]
• My interest is that there has to be some funding source in perpetuity that could maintain the land in Town Center. (Dennis Miller) [interest/source/land]
• As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. (Kevin Bacon) [stage/source]
• We had this thing called the Cotillion, which was a source of anxiety for me because I was shy and you were forced to ask girls to dance. (Kyle MacLachlan) [thing/source/anxiety/shy]

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