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- Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to M. le Riche, February 6, 1770
- The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
- We don't make mistakes, we make happy accidents.
- Bob Ross (1942 - 1995), "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross" PBS
- Truth is a pathless land.
- Krishnamurti
- Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
- Edna Woolman Chase
- The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
- Mata Hari (1876 - 1917)
- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.
- Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
- Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
- Alan Alda (1936 - )
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