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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.: Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.: Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.: Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.: Thomas Guthrie
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.: Robert Bresson
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.: Stan Dunn
Reason should direct and appetite obey.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.: Anonymous
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Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.: Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)