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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Betty Shabazz We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- John Stuart Mill One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
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-- Holbrook Jackson I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
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-- Socrates Libraries
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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-- Sydney Smith The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Men have become the tools of their tools.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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-- Albert Schweitzer I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
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