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- Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
- The Talmud
- I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
- Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923
- Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
- Peter De Vries
- In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.
- James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
- Jerry Falwell (1933 - )
- The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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