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- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
- No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
- I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
- Rita Rudner
- When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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