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- Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
- The Talmud
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923
- Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970), Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic, ch. 6 (1989).
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