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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen

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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day

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Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
- Lord Byron

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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Ideas control the world.
- James Garfield

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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- William M. Thackeray

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It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
- Arthur Calwell

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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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Jazz: Well, that weekend was a mistake!
Ford Fairlane: Hey, look. I’m sorry I made you clean the toilets and the bathtubs, I mean, who did all the work in bed?
- Andrew Dice Clay in "Ford Fairlane"

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness; no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice-versa.
- Eugene Ionesco

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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Mark Twain

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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
- Bertrand Russell

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It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin

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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry

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How much reverence can you have for a Supreme being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was going through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the ability to control their bowel movements?
- Joseph Heller

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Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of men, then I take away reason and accountability.
- Jack Nicholson in "As good as it gets"

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We should behave to our friends, as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
- Aristotle

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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
- Henry Kissinger

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.
- Robertson Davies

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Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
- Lord Kelvin

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No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.
- Danish Proverb

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- Thomas Paine

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan

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There are two things to aim at in life: First to get what you want and after you have it, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- Alexander Pope

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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
- Lyndon B. Johnson