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- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
- When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
- The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
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