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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: To be himself.
- Henrik Ibsen

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"Here's looking at you, kid"
- Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca"

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The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colors. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn’t crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers are corpse fingers.
- D. H. Lawrence

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The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
- Shakespeare

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In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Walt Whitman

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Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
- Robert Anton Wilson

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Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
- Johnny Carson

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Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen

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All across the nation, such a strange vibration,
people in motion,
there’s a whole generation, with a new explanation,
people in motion, people in motion.
- Scott MacKenzie, from "San Francisco"

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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
- Barry Goldwater

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"Hey! Asshole! This is the ultimate fuck you. I just poked your wife."
-Richard Dreyfuss in "Tin Men"

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The man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world.
- Oscar Wilde

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People build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in.
- Ronald Reagan

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H. L. Mencken’s Law:
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
- H.L. Mencken

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No matter how many times I visit this great city I'm always struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab.
- Scott Adams

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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley

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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
- Queen Victoria

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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
- Ronald Reagan

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Jugend ist Trunkenheit ohne Wein
[Youth is drunkenness without wine]
- Goethe

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"I'm a great believer in doin' nothing."
- Kevin Kline in "Silverado"

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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
- Richard M. Nixon

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"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne

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The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
- Harry S. Truman

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C’est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur
[It gives double pleasure to deceive the deceiver]
- Jean de la Fontaine

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
- John F. Kennedy