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Sic transit gloria mundi
[Thus perish the glories of the world]
- Patricius

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Quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
[Who is to guard the guardians?]
- Juvenal

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Varuim et mutabile semper femina.
[Woman is always fickle and changing.]
- Virgil

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
- Denis Diderot

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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Good fences make good neighbors.
- Robert Frost

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The ever growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever greater obstacles in the way of the solidaric co-operation of human beings and crushing out every possibility of new development.
- Rudolph Rocker

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If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
- Earl Wilson

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It is with our judgments as our watches: none goes just alike, yet each believes his own.
- Alexander Pope

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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give it to the other.
- Voltaire

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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
- Robert Heinlein

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L’Etat c’est moi.
[I am the state]
- Louis XIV

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Don't worry, be happy.
- Bobby McFerrin

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Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves.
- Johnny Carson

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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks; mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson

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Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
- I Ching

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The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
- Ayn Rand

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A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With thunderous blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
All people came running.
The man screamed and struggled,
And bit madly at the feet of the god.
The people cried,
‘Ah, what a wicked man!’
And -
‘Ah, what a redoubtable god!’
- Stephen Crane, "A God in Wrath"

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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
- William Shakespeare

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Razors pain you; rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give;
Gas smells awful; you might as well live.
- Dorothy Parker

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife
Nature I loved, and, next to nature, art
I warmed both hands before the fire of life
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
- Walter Savage Landor

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Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats, "He wishes for the cloths of heaven"

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In Youth it was a way I had
To do my best to please
And change with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do
And if you do not like me so
To hell, my love, with you.
- Dorothy Parker "In Youth"

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie.
In Flanders fields.

Take up your quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
- John McCrae "In Flanders Fields"

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Ministers say that they teach charity. That is natural. They live on hand-outs. All beggars teach that others should give.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain

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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
- P.J. O'Rourke

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Mosquitos remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.
- Tom Wilson

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"She loves nature, despite what it’s done to her."
- Bette Midler, on Princess Anne of England

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We are not amused.
- Queen Victoria

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Labor omnia vincit
[Labor conquers everything]
- Virgil, Roman poet 70-19 BC