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- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
- Stephen Colbert, Speech to White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 30, 2006
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Learning is achieved only in company.
- The Talmud
- The passions often engender their contraries.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997), Yage Letters
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