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-- Stephen Leacock

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The only thing that hurts more than paying income tax is not having to pay income tax.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Intuition (n): an uncanny sixth sense which tells people that they are right, whether they are or not.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Dictatorship (n): a form of government under which everything which is not prohibited is compulsory.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Concerto (n): a fight between a piano and a pianist.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Communist (n): one who has given up all hope of becoming a Capitalist.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Book (n): a utensil used to pass time while waiting for the TV repairman.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Bagpipes (n): an octopus wearing a kilt.
-- Stephen Leacock

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Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human intelligence for long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock

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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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War is like love; it always finds a way.
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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What is the crime of robbing a bank compared with the crime of founding one.
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
-- Chinese proverb

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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.
-- Chinese proverb.

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A human being should be able to heal a wound, plan an expedition, order from a French menu, climb a mountain face, enjoy a ballet, balance accounts, roll a kayak, embolden a friend, tell a joke, laugh at himself, cooperate, act alone, sing a children's song, solve equations, throw a dog a stick, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, love heartily, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Lew Hitchner

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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken

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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
-- G.C. Lichtenberg

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I get my exercise running to the funerals of my friends who exercise.
-- Barry Gray

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain

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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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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
-- Mark Twain

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
-- Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher von Braun

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I believe I have found the link between animals and civilized man. It is us.
-- Konrad Lorenz

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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
-- Theodor W. Adorno

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Life without risk would be like chilli without heat - edible but bland.
-- Gary Egger, Ross Spark & Jim Lawson

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The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
-- Anthony Giddens

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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
-- Hippocrates

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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
-- La Rochefoucauld

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There is more to life than increasing it's speed.
-- Mahathma Ghandi

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In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
-- Theodor W. Adorno

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Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
-- Theodor W. Adorno

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All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
-- Raymond Douglas Davies

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If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.
-- Kinky Friedman

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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1958

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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

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The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it.
-- P.J. O'Rourke

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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
-- P.J. O'Rourke

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It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.
-- Robert M. Pirsig

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A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.
-- Ronald D. Laing

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Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
-- Edward T. Hall

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As far as Germany extends, it ruins culture.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Self-worth and financial worth become indistinguishable.
-- Peter Russell

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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.
-- Banana Yoshimoto

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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
-- Saul D. Alinsky

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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
-- Saul D. Alinsky

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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
-- Saul D. Alinsky

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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
-- James Baldwin

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If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.
-- James Baldwin

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Creative thought must always contain a random component.
-- Gregory Bateson

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Information consists of differences that make a difference.
-- Gregory Bateson

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Science probes; it does not prove.
-- Gregory Bateson

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Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
-- Gregory Bateson

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In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.
-- Gregory Bateson

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If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
-- Marlon Brando

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When time grows short, self-serving wins out over others-serving.
-- Lee Burns

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I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
-- Albert Camus

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Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.
-- Raymond Douglas Davies

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Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.
-- Mary Douglas

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Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.
-- Rene Dubos

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In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.
-- Rene Dubos

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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
-- Rene Dubos

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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
-- Umberto Eco

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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
-- Umberto Eco

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Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
-- Amitai Etzioni

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The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
-- Marilyn French

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The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.
-- Marilyn French

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In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.
-- Kinky Friedman

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They say that death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down a little bit.
-- Kinky Friedman

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Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.
-- Kinky Friedman

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Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.
-- Kinky Friedman

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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
-- William Greider

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If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
-- William Greider

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The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.
-- William Greider

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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
-- Hippocrates

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In life, man proposes, God disposes.
-- Aldous Huxley

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If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.
-- June Jordan

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Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.
-- June Jordan

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War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.
-- Hans Koning

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What we think is less than what we know; what we know is less than what we love; what we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
-- Ronald D. Laing

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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
-- Aldo Leopold

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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
-- Aldo Leopold

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To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.
-- Aldo Leopold

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Good health has become a new ritual of patriotism, a market place for the public display of secular faith in the power of will.
-- Roger Levin

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What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre

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Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre

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Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre

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I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing.
-- Groucho Marx

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Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
-- Groucho Marx

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TV is the rat race of the century.
-- Groucho Marx

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The earth is a museum of divine intent.
-- Bill McKibben

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We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.
-- Bill McKibben

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Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
-- Bill McKibben

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
-- John Stuart Mill

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Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
-- Cees Nooteboom

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Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
-- Cees Nooteboom

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
-- George Orwell

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Time makes more converts than reason.
-- Thomas Paine

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Individuals would never have a chance acting alone; only organized people could balance organized money.
-- Mary Beth Rogers

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Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.
-- Jerry Seinfeld

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The rich are very charitable: they understand that they have to pay ransom for their riches.
-- Bernard Shaw

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Individuals control their behavior in order to control the behavior of others.
-- Paul Sites

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And keep in mind: statistically you can prove that most Miami residents are born Cuban and die Jewish!
-- Robert L. Taylor

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It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.
-- Pete Townshend

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Rational answers seldom do explain.
-- Patrick White

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While there are men, there will always be lies.
-- Patrick White

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To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.
-- Patrick White

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
-- Oscar Wilde

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
-- Oscar Wilde

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Men become old, but they never become good.
-- Oscar Wilde

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
-- Oscar Wilde

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.
-- Jessica Zafra

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The side without power is always the side that is accused of being irrational.
-- Xianliang Zhang

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Only pessimists have a tolerant attitude.
-- Xianliang Zhang

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Never ask the gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
-- Menander (B.C. 342-291)

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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
-- Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
-- Voltaire (1694-1778)

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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
-- James B. Conant (1893-1978)

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Nothing is more useful than silence.
-- Menander (B.C. 342-291)

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The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.
-- Buddha (B.C. 568-488)

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep.
-- Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

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When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.
-- Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
-- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

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I dreamed a thousand new paths ... I woke and walked my old one.
-- Chinese Proverb

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone.
-- Carlyle (1795-1881)

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Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal.
-- Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
-- Fontenelle (1657-1757)

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To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
-- Sun Tzu (fl. c. B.C. 500)

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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
-- Junius (1740-1818)

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
-- Lincoln (1809-1865)

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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
-- Disraeli (1804-1881)

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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
-- Anatole France (1844-1924)

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The future comes one day at a time.
-- Dean Acheson (1893-1971)

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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
-- Young (1683-1765)

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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
-- Josh Billings (1815-1885)

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Every wave is new until it breaks.
-- Neil Young

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Every exit is an entry to somewhere else.
-- Tom Stoppard

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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
-- Ovid

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I'm not denying that women are foolish. God almighty made them to match men.
-- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations but your body has all the fun.
-- Woody Allen

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If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything
-- Joseph Conrad

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Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
-- Tom Lehrer

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In a connected world, you've gotta know the links.
-- Me

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And the seasons they go round and round, And the painted ponies go up and down, We're captive on the carousel of time, We can't return, we can only look behind, From where we came and go round and round and round In the circle game.
-- Joni Mitchell

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'Tis writ on Paradise's gate Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
-- Hafiz (1325?-1390?)

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
-- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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Health promotion is a political enterprise rooted in human preferences and prejudices - and these add greatly to its capacity to mislead.
-- David Seedhouse

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Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.
-- Richard G. Wilkinson

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
-- Albert Einstein

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I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
-- Albert Einstein

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein

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No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
-- Albert Einstein

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If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.
-- Hoyt Axton

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Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
-- Blaise Pascal

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There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
-- Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616

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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
-- Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616

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I know everything except myself.
-- Francois Villon

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There are only two important things in politics. The first is money and I can't remember the second.
-- Mark Hanna

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain 1835-1910

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The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power.
-- Hugh White 1773-1840

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
-- Burke 1729-1797

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There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject
-- G.B. Shaw 1856-1950

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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
-- Theodor W. Adorno

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
-- Theodor W. Adorno

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Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.
-- Anthony Giddens

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The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.
-- Antonio Gramsci

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Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
-- William Greider

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Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
-- Hans Koning

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The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.
-- Ronald D. Laing

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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
-- Aldo Leopold

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I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.
-- Ferdinand Mount

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Individuals control their behavior in order to control the behavior of others.
-- Paul Sites

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Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
-- Susan Sontag

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Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.
-- Susan Sontag

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Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
-- Susan Sontag

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One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
-- Oscar Wilde

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents: as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
-- Oscar Wilde

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The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
-- Carlyle (1795-1881)

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passerby kill the snake for the beads.
-- Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
-- Mark Twain

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There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
-- Josh Billings

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I don't want to be a genius, I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
-- Albert Camus

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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg

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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston

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If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.
-- Glenn, age 7

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Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me.
-- Dave, age 8

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Don't forget your wife's name ... that will mess up the love.
-- Erin, age 8

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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
-- Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
-- Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)

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A religion that requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.
-- Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
-- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
-- Cervantes (1547-1616)

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The important thing is, not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein

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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
-- Louis Armstrong

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Look around you! This is where the path of hatred has brought us.
-- Pocahontas

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The best things in life aren't things.
-- Art Buchwald

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To the query, 'What is a friend?' his reply was 'A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'
-- Aristotle

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Be yourself - who else is better qualified?
-- Frank J. Giblin II

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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
-- Doug Floyd

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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-- Emily Kimbrough

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-- The Reverend Jesse Jackson

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It takes a long time to become young.
-- Pablo Picasso

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'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
-- Louisa May Alcott

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Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
-- Billie Burke

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Murphy's Law:
-- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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Murphy's Law:
-- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

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Murphy's Law:
-- Enough research will tend to support your theory.

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Murphy's Law:
-- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

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Murphy's Law:
-- If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

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Murphy's Law:
-- A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

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Murphy's Law:
-- The first myth of management is that it exists.

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Murphy's Law:
-- Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

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Alan's Law of Research:
-- The theory is supported as long as the funds are.

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Ashley-Perry Statistical Axioms:
-- The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation; it is not the solution to a problem.

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Bok's Law:
-- If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

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Grossman's Misquote:
-- Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.

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Krueger's Observation:
-- A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government.

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Levy's Law:
-- Only God can make a random selection.

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Morton's Law:
-- If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer. (What this country needs are some stronger white rats.)

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Oppenheimer's Observation:
-- The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

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Law of Raspberry Jam:
-- The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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Schultze's Law:
-- If you can't measure output, then you measure input.

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Thoreau's Law:
-- If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
-- Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)

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-- Petronius Obit/Petronius Arbiter 100BC or AD 66

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-- Franklin (1706-1790)

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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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-- Buffy Sainte-Marie

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The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
-- Max Stirner

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-- Mark Twain

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-- Mark Twain

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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
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-- Herbert (1593-1632)

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-- Charles Reade (1814-1884)

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-- Immanuel Kant

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-- Beecher (1813-1878)

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-- Euripides (B.C. 480-406)

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If you come here to help me, then you are wasting your time. But if you come here because your liberation is bound up in mine, then let us begin.
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-- Theodor W. Adorno

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-- Boufflers (1738-1815)

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-- G.K. Chesterton

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If we do not discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
-- William Feather (born 1888)

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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
-- Swedenborg (1688-1772)

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-- Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

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At the outset, the man does not comprehend the nature of prevailing forces nor does he perceive them as a connected whole. This superficial view is acceptable for the masses, but the superior man should know better.
-- I Ching (B.C. 1150?)

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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons: those that make them, those that execute them, and those that suffer if they break them.
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As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.
-- Trench (1807-1886)

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
-- Longfellow (1807-1882)

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One should count each day a separate life.
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-- Oscar Wilde

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-- Barber's Laws of Backpacking

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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
-- Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)

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-- Anatole France (1844-1924)

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There is no little enemy.
-- Franklin (1706-1790)

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-- Disraeli (1804-1881)

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-- Homer (c. BC 700)

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-- Lincoln (1809-1865)

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-- John Lennon (1940-1980)

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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
-- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

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-- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

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-- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

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-- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

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-- Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) font>

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-- DK (1952- )

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-- Alfred Adler (1870-1937)

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-- Fred Allen

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-- Dr Robert Anthony

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-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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-- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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-- Voltaire (1694-1778)

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We apologize for the inconvenience.
-- God's final message to His creation

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-- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

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-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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-- Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968)

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-- Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)

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The patient is the one with the disease.
-- The House of God

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The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple.
-- Kids' ideas of the Bible

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-- Kids' ideas of the Bible

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Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day, but a ball of fire by night.
-- Kids' ideas of the Bible

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-- Henry Cate VII

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-- Mel Brooks

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-- Will Rogers

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-- Max Frisch

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
-- Jewish proverb

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-- Anthony Burgess

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I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde

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-- Vice President Dan Quayle

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50% of all people are below average.
-- Anonymous

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-- Anonymous

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-- Aldous Huxley

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-- Robert A. Henlein

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-- Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.C.)

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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers

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-- Gibbon (1737-1794)

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They can because they think they can.
-- Vergil (B.C. 70-19)

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Beware, for the most sacred cow may become the tiger's breakfast.
-- Mohan Singh

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-- Mohan Singh

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He who lives by bread alone needs sex education.
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Consider the wombat and be grateful.
-- Mohan Singh

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-- Mohan Singh

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-- Mohan Singh

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-- Mohan Singh

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-- Chinese Proverb

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Paradise is always where love dwells.
-- Richter (1763-1825)

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
-- Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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-- Rita Joe

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-- Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
-- Bertolt Brecht

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-- Leonard Cohen

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
-- John Philpot Curran (1750-1817)

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-- Montesquieu (1689-1755)

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-- Albert Einstein

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

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-- Albert Einstein

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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
-- Demosthenes (B.C. 384-322)

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
-- William Maxwell (1676-1744)

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Bacon (1561-1626)

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-- Upton Sinclair

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-- Russell Means, Oglala

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The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had 'freedom and justice', and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this.
-- From the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians

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-- Bertolt Brecht

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The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent.
-- Northwest Ordinance, 1787, Ratified by Congress 1789

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-- Mary Bly

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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
-- Emmanuel Levinas

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-- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
-- Mae West (1892-1980)

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-- Alfred Hitchcock

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-- Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)

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-- Terry Allen - Singer-Songwriter

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When I rise it will be with the ranks and not from the ranks.
-- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), Founder of the Socialist Party of America

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Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
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With money a dragon Without money a worm.
-- Chinese Proverb

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It's not that easy being green.
-- Kermit The Frog

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Friendship is Love without his wings!
-- Byron (1788-1824)

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-- Steven Wright

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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
-- Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879)

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-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer - German writer

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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
-- Spinoza (1632-1677)

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

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Honesty without compassion and understanding, is not honesty, but subtle hostility.
-- Dr. Rose Franzblau

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General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room.
-- John Locke (1632-1704)

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-- Bacon (1561-1626)

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright

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When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
-- Ethiopian proverb

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-- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

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Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
-- Pascal (1623-1662)

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Be of an exceedingly humble spirit, for the end of man is the worm.
-- The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)

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-- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

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-- Steven Wright

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In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- Protestant Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
-- Author unknown

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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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-- Ade's Law

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Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.
-- Finagle's Creed

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-- Fundamental Tenet of Reform

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Any philosophy that can be put 'in a nutshell' belongs there.
-- Harris's Law

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A consultant is someone who, when hired to find out what time it is, borrows your watch to find out.
-- Rodriguez's Observation

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-- Sayre's Third Law of Politics

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-- Steven Wright

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Anxiety is the space between the 'now' and the 'then'.
-- Richard Abell

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
-- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903)

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To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable.
-- Edgar Bronfman, Seagrams Co

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Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.
-- Jerry Seinfeld

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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill

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Even when you're dead, you must never allow yourself just to lie down and be buried.
-- Gordon Lee - English Football Coach

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
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