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The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle

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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- Euripides

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow

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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
- Goethe

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As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
- Hughes Mearns

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He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernhard Shaw

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock

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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
- William Orville Douglas

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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin

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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
- Newt Gingrich

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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
- Epictetus

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Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

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I’ll never forget what my Uncle Moe said about little girls. He said, «Officer, she said she was 18!»
- Billy Crystal in «Mr. Saturday Night»

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
- Warren G. Bennis

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That unalterable rule applies both to God and man.
- Lord Acton

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My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.
- Jean Paul Getty

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

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I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.
- William Faulkner

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The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan

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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
- Channing Pollock

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert

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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
- Arnold Bennet

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Ernest Hemingway

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker

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The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.
- Gerrold’s Pronouncement