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- What a deformed thief this fashion is.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii
- Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- Girls just want to have funds.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), "The Rights of Man", 1792
- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
- How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), "Cato", Act 4, Scene 4, 1713
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