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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.: A. L. Kitselman
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.: Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.: Aaron Douglas Trimble
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Woe be to him that reads but one book.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.: George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger