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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.: Minna Thomas Antrim
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.: William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.: Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
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The way to final freedom is within thy self.: The Book of the Golden Precepts
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.: David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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You know how stubborn young people are, as determined to flee a path their elders propose as they are to take the path their elders oppose.: Joyce Harmon, Mary Bennet and the Haunting of Longbourn, 2025
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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