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People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
- Cullen Hightower

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot

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The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
- Bill Vaughn

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
-Al Capp

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle

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Festina lente
[Hasten slowly]
- Suetonius

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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universe, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and that he becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
- Robert Heinlein

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, 'as pretty as an airport.'
- Douglas Adams

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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- Aesop

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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
- Winston Churchill

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Harry Fosdick

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The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
- F.A. Hayek

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire

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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
- Joe Moore

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. The people you can bravo and hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
- Bette Davis

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Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
- Lewis S. Feuer

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy

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In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
- Thomas Jefferson

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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
- Robert Heinlein

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill

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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

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Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
- Shakespeare

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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton

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He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
- John Bright

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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.
- Tryon Edwards

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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

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It’s not a successful climb unless you enjoy the journey.
- Dan Benson

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It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman

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I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson

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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
- Edgar Watson Howe

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So loud each tongue, so empty was each head
So much they talked, so very little said.
- Charles Churchill

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou

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I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil; you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.
- Dan Barker

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If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.
- Erna Bombeck

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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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He who laughs, lasts.
- Mary Pettibone Poole

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Furor arma ministrat.
[Anger supplies the weapons.]
- Virgil

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That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can’t say "no" in any one of them.
- Dorothy Parker

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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
- William Hazlitt

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The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
- Andy Warhol

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce

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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill

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I’m not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made them to match the men.
- George Eliot

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Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
- Carl Jung

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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
- Harold S. Geneen

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin

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A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian

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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Alva Edison

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Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
- Kingman Brewster Jr

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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

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'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
- Jonathan Swift

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Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
- Dave Parnas

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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
- Henry Steele Commager

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If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Alva Edison

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok

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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
- James Watson

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Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, Then how come evil in the world?
- Epicurus, 350-270 BC

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[Your] horrid image doth unfix my hair.
Shakespeare, "Macbeth"

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Go west, young man!
- Horace Greeley

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I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had the scratching of thee!
- Shakespeare in "Troilus and Cressida"

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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May you be cursed with a chronic anxiety about the weather!
- John Burroughs

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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
- J. H. Holmes

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For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"

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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader