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- If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Literature is news that stays news.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
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