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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.: Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
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Wish not so much to live long as to live well.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.: Jarvis Klem
Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.: Clive James
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.: John A. Wheeler
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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