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- In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
- R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
- We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
- Peter De Vries
- Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
- Paul Beatty
- If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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