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- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin
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