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- The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
- A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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