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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Remarkable Rocket"
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
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Pete Seeger
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Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.
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Marion Parker
I have read your book and much like it.
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Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.
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Lisa Williams, Learning the Lessons of Nixon, 03-29-08
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
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Baltasar Gracian
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874 - 1929)
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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