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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Gorky Incident
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), D-Day, page 577

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