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- Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Fountainhead (1943)
- The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Unknown
- People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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