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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity. |
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W. S. Gilbert |
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. |
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Terry Pratchett |
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. |
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Helen Keller |
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. |
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Alexander Hamilton |
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. |
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Delmore Schwartz |
Even paranoids have real enemies. |
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Benjamin Disraeli |
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. |
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Albert Einstein |
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory. |
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Unknown |
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze. |
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Apuleius |
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. |
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Sophocles |
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. |
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Robert Ingersoll |
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. |
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Wendy Ward |
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank. |
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Reggie Leach |
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. |
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Alice Walker |
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. |
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Aristotle |
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. |
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Samuel Johnson |
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. |
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Groucho Marx |
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? |
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Charlie Chaplin |
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. |
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Michaelangelo |
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. |
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Robert Frost |
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
