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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
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I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Michael Leunig It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Golf
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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-- Peter De Vries Golf
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Golf
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