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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry

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Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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They [preachers] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George Patton

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- W. E. B. Du Bois

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Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
- Woody Allen

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
- Machiavelli

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What was it that Adam ate that he wasn't supposed to eat? It wasn't just an apple - it was the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The subtle message? Get smart and I'll fuck you over - sayeth the Lord. God is the smartest - and he doesn't want any competition. Is this not an absolutely anti-intellectual religion?
- Frank Zappa

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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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Selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.
- C. Day Lewis (from "Walking Away")

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl Buck

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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
- Robert Heinlein

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We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
- Joseph Epstein

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You don’t let the fox guard the chickens just because he has experience from the henhouse.
- Harry Truman

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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the 2, in the 1st instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the 2nd a fool.
- Marquis de Sade

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The fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
- Thomas Hardy

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
- David Fasold

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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
- Van Wyck Brooks

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To think is to differ.
- Clarence Darrow

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire

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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?
- Dan Barker

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
- Heroditus

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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
- Virgil

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
- Shakespeare, "King Henry VI"

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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
- Rudyard Kipling

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is so.
- James Branch Cabell

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost

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Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
- Robert Nozick