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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