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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
I think the world is run by 'C' students.: Al McGuire
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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.: Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
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There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.: Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.: The laws of Manu
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.: Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"
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The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.: Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.: Ernest Benn
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.: Baltasar Gracian
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982