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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.: Lee Simonson
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.: Celia Thaxter
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Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.: Unknown
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Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.: Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.: Larry Hardiman
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.: Joan Baez (1941 - )
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 438 B.C.
I cannot live without books.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.: Sidney J. Harris
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.: Storm Jameson