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No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.: Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), describing his first skydive
When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again.: Gov. Bill Clinton
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.: Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes' "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931
He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), "Jonathan Wild"
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.: E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

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