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- Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.
- Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998), Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
- My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music
- Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
- To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
- Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
- Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, volume I, no. 183
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
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