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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
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A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.: George Steiner
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.: Pancho Villa (1877 - 1923), last words
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.: Edith Sodergran
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.: Lee Entrekin
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.: Blore's Razor
I hate women because they always know where things are.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.: Frank Moore Colby
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