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- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Life is short; live it up.
- Khrushchev
- Live simply that others might simply live.
- Elizabeth Seaton
- You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
- Henrik Tikkanen
- The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
- When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
- Chinese proverb
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