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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

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By neccessity, by proclivity, - and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
- Yogi Berra

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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

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Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
- Franklin P. Jones

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God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That is not free will. It's akin to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I'll track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment/execution. When god says the same we call him loving and build churches in his honor.
- W. Easttom

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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
- George Carlin

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

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A Lady is someone who never shows her underwear - unintentionally.
- Lillian Day

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

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When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
- Solomon Short

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

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A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.
- Burt Bacharach

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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen

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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day

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Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
- Lord Byron

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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Ideas control the world.
- James Garfield

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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- William M. Thackeray

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It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
- Arthur Calwell

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That unalterable rule applies both to God and man.
- Lord Acton

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Jazz: Well, that weekend was a mistake!
Ford Fairlane: Hey, look. I’m sorry I made you clean the toilets and the bathtubs, I mean, who did all the work in bed?
- Andrew Dice Clay in "Ford Fairlane"

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness; no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice-versa.
- Eugene Ionesco

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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Mark Twain

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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
- Bertrand Russell

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It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin

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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry

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How much reverence can you have for a Supreme being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was going through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the ability to control their bowel movements?
- Joseph Heller

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Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of men, then I take away reason and accountability.
- Jack Nicholson in "As good as it gets"

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We should behave to our friends, as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
- Aristotle

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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
- Henry Kissinger

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.
- Robertson Davies

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Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
- Lord Kelvin

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No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.
- Danish Proverb

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- Thomas Paine

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan

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There are two things to aim at in life: First to get what you want and after you have it, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- Alexander Pope

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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

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The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle

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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- Euripides

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow

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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
- Goethe

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As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
- Hughes Mearns

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He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernhard Shaw

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock

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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
- William Orville Douglas

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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin

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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
- Newt Gingrich

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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
- Epictetus

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Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

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I’ll never forget what my Uncle Moe said about little girls. He said, «Officer, she said she was 18!»
- Billy Crystal in «Mr. Saturday Night»

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
- Warren G. Bennis

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That unalterable rule applies both to God and man.
- Lord Acton

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My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.
- Jean Paul Getty

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

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I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.
- William Faulkner

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The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan

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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
- Channing Pollock

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert

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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
- Arnold Bennet

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Ernest Hemingway

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker

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The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.
- Gerrold’s Pronouncement