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- Living well is the best revenge.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- What we’re saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - ), Speech in San Francisco, 1968
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), "The True Believer", 1951
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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