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-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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-- Charles Lamb I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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-- John G. Pollard Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Sigmund Freud We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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-- Roger Babson What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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-- George Benard Shaw Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Benjamin Franklin It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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-- Anonymous Jewellery When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Michael Meissner Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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