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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.: Thomas Elliot
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You've done a nice job decorating the White House.: Jessica Simpson (1980 - ), Upon being introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme (1737)
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Existence precedes and rules essence.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Being and Nothingness (1943)

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