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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.: David Reisman
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.: Lenin (1870 - 1924)
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
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I improve on misquotation.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.: Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-23-06
The crowd gives the leader new strength.: Evenius
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
All the world's a cage.: Jeanne Phillips
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