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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- Adam Smith

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
- James Russel Lowell

Mah weight

Ish down to 108.6 kg this morning. Waiting for the weather to get nice enough that I can take a walk in the forest again. Imma reach 105 kg before the summer holidays or die trying.

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A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
- W.H. Auden

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it at all, existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
- H. G. Wells

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To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he temporarily died to save it from himself. But none of that really matters because most people will be tortured for eternity anyways.
- Matt Miller

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If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
- Jack Handy

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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell

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A kiss on your hand may make you feel very, very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.
- Anita Loos

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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
- Bruce Feirstein

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A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
- Don Quinn

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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
- Robert M. Pirsig

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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
- Dennis Wholey

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Deyr fé, deyja frændr, deyr sjalfir et sama, ek veit einn at aldri deyr, dómr of daudan hvern
[Cattle die, friends die, oneself dies in the same way, I know one that never dies, the judgement over each death]
- Viking proverb (rendered in ancient Norse, mind you…)

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What this country needs, is more unemployed politicians.
- Edward Langley

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As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
- Richard David Bach

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When a woman is silent it’s always because she wants to say something.
- Elinor Glyn

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When I was born I was so surprised I couldn’t talk for a year and a half.
- Gracie Allen