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-- John Von Neuman Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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- Friedrich Nietzsche I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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- Umberto Eco Advertising and Marketing
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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