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- Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
- Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - )
- Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998), acceptance speech as Republican candidate for President, 1964
- The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), "The Leviathan"
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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