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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.: Etty Hillesum
Communism is like one big phone company.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.: M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.: Allan Goldfein
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.: Henry Morgan
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.: Jacqueline Cochran (1910 - 1980)
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.: Lillian Eichler Watson
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.: Kazuo Inamori
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.: Indian Proverb
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)