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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.: M. F. K. Fisher
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.: Umberto Eco (1932 - )
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
All appears to change when we change.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.: Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, 2013
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.: William James (1842 - 1910)
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.: Bill Vaughan
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)