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- In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
- Roger Allen
- Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
- 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
- No human thing is of serious importance.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
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