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- At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sidney J. Harris
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
- Jimmy Demaret
- One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
- Franklin P. Jones
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