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- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
- There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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