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- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
- Quentin Crisp
- I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
- Stephen Colbert, Speech to White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 30, 2006
- Learning is achieved only in company.
- The Talmud
- The passions often engender their contraries.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Traveling there was really boring so I headed for the ditch. It was a rough ride but I met more interesting people there.
- Neil Young
- The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.
- Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
- Not every age is fit for childish sports.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
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