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A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge.' I don't like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.: Jackie Gleason (1916 - 1987), Interview, August 1986
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.: Alan Alda (1936 - ), GQ, Summer, 1980
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.: Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), Defence of Hedonism
People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.: Somerset Maugham
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now.: S. G. Tallentyre, referring to Voltaire. Often attributed to Voltaire.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Essay on Tolerance

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