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Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Gorky Incident
Never invest you money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
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Billy Rose
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
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Pat Conroy (1945 - ), The Prince of Tides
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), The Snow-Walkers
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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William Cowper (1731 - 1800), Task (bk. IV, l. 120)
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