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- History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.
- Krishnamurti
- I am from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
- William Duncan Vandiver, US Congressman, speech at 1899 naval banquet
- There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- He who abandons the field is beaten.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
- Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemos
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
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