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- They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
- Graham Greene, _The Heart of the Matter_
- The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
- Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
- We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- "Off days" are a part of life, I guess, whether you're a cartoonist, a neurosurgeon, or an air-traffic controller.
- Gary Larson
- Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
- Othello
- Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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