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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.: Senator Patrick Leahy (1940 - ), May 1990
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Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.: H. H. Williams
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Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.: Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, 2013
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.: Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.: Ashley Montague
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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
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