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| Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to RESTrain. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to REST in repositories. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, RESTricted segment of reality. The REST, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. | George Steiner | 1929-, French-born American Critic, Novelist |
| In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the REST of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. | John Naisbitt | American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author |
| My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the REST of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. | Malcolm X | 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist |
| A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the REST he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes'' |
| Everywhere I have sought REST and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. | Thomas Ð Kempis | 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer |
| The REST, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. | Tristan Tzara | 1896-1963, Rumanian-born French Dadaist |
| To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the REST of the world. | Meyer London | |
| Knowledge RESTs not upon truth alone, but upon error also. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
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| The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the REST appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. | Elias Canetti | 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher |
| I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the REST of my life. | Jennie Garth | 1972-, American Actress |
| Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the REST. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be RESTrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| I have enough money to last me the REST of my life, unless I buy something. | Jackie Mason | American Comedian |
| The lead dog gets the best view. The REST of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine. | Richard Saunders | |
| The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self RESTraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| All business success RESTs on something labelled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. | Thomas J. Peters | 1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer |
| If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the REST of your life. | Abraham H. Maslow | 1908-1970, American Psychologist |
| The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will RESTore it to some degree of tranquillity and sedateness. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
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| Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the RESTraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they REST on force. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself REST on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history RESTs on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher |
| Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is RESTored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| The main business of religions is to purify, control, and RESTrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to RESTrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| No theory is good unless it permits, not REST, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| REST, REST, shall I have not all eternity to REST. | Antoine Arnauld | 1612-1694, French Philosopher, Lawyer, Mathematician, Priest |
| Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the REST of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. | Anzia Yezierska | 1885-1970, Polish Writer |
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| It is the mark of an instructed mind to REST satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to REST and sleep a little dearth. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning RESTs is the inexplicable. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Better mad with the REST of the world than wise alone. | Baltasar Gracian | 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer |
| Marriage is low down, but you spend the REST of your life paying for it. | Baskins | |
| All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and REST. | Bayazid Al-Bistami | |
| Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the REST. | Ben Johnson | 1600-?British Clergyman, Poet |
| He that can take REST is greater than he that can take cities. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo RESTs deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger RESTs in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
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| Anger REST in the bosom of fools. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find REST for your souls. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete REST, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at REST, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Nothing gives REST but the sincere search for truth. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Our nature consist in motion; complete REST is death. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to REST in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires. | Brihadaranyaka Upanishad | Ancient Hindu Scripture Expounding the Identity of the Real Self |
| I judge a RESTaurant by the bread and by the coffee. | Burt Lancaster | 1913-1994, American Actor |
| Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually RESTores itself, by psychic equilibrium. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of RESToration: RESToration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and RESToration of art to its audience. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
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