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When in doubt, use brute force.
- Ken Thompson

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If all the women in the world were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker

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Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
- John F. Kennedy

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Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H. L. Mencken

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash

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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.
- Jack Nicholson

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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
- Eric Hoffer

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde

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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
- Robert Frost

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Since I became motherless on Sunday, this week will be devoted to quotes about mothers and/or parenting.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
- Mae West

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most destructive to the peace of man since man began to exist.
- Thomas Paine

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I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!
- John Adams

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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Pour water on a sportswriter - instant horseshit.
- Ted Williams, American baseball player

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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee (from "To Kill A Mockingbird")

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
- Thomas Browne

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There are no sects in geometry.
- Voltaire

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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin

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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann

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The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
- Peter Drucker

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
- John Adams

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Say what bad things you want about sinful living - but it is educatiing.
Hjalmar Bergman

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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
- Charles Dickens

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One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
- Edgar Watson Howe

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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
- Carter Glass

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A nation is just a society for hating foreigners.
- Olaf Stapledon

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- Agnes Repplier