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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
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The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
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Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow,
die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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John Donne (1572 - 1631), Death Be Not Proud
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
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Robertson Davies
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Jack London (1876 - 1916), The Call of the Wild
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
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Karl Marx (1818 - 1883), Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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