Famous Quotes from Inspirational People
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  The best [man] is like water.--....
The best [man] is like water.--

 
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  [He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious....
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.-- Mark Twain

 
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  [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain....
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.-- Napoleon Bonaparte

 
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  [Abstract art is] a product of....
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.-- Al Capp

 
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  Would that the Roman people had....
Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].-- Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

 
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  They are so damn 'intellectual' and....
They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.-- Frida Kahlo

 
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  [Memory is] a man's real possession...In....
[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.-- Alexander Smith

 
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  I believe that banking institutions are....
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.-- Thomas Jefferson

 
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  Costly thy habit [dress] as thy....
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  While you are not able to....
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?-- Confucius

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  I believe that banking institutions are....
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.-- Thomas Jefferson

 
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  You will always find [hatred] strongest....
You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 
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  We have a firm commitment to....
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.-- Dan Quayle

 
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  Another possible source of guidance for....
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.-- Dave Barry

 
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  'So you think *I'm* the murderer?....
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'-- Peter Stone

 
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  [When asked what was the proper....
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.-- Diogenes the Cynic

 
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  I decided that it was not....
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.-- Socrates

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would....
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Fasting and natural diet, though essentially....
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.-- Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

 
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  Separate together in a bunch. [And....
Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [Spring is] a true reconstructionist.-- Henry....
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.-- Henry Timrod

 
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  [Television is] the triumph of machine....
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.-- Fred Allen

 
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  [Spring is] a true reconstructionist.-- Henry....
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.-- Henry Timrod

 
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  I have made this [letter] longer,....
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.-- Blaise Pascal

 
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  Faith: not *wanting* to know what....
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  He [Somoza] may be a son....
He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 
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  [The body is] a marvelous machine...a....
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!-- Theodor Herzl

 
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  God is not on the side....
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.-- George W. Bush

 
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  The purpose of a liberal arts....
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  I believe that banking institutions are....
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.-- Thomas Jefferson

 
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  The best [man] is like water.--....
The best [man] is like water.--

 
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  [He] looks at foreign affairs through....
[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  [Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining....
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.-- Voltaire

 
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  [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom....
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.-- Mark Twain

 
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  Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in....
Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in der sich eine Kultur ueber ihre Vergangenheit Rechenschaft gibt. [transl.:] History is the mental-- Johan Huizinga

 
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  God is not on the side....
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.-- George W. Bush

 
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  [When asked what was the proper....
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.-- Diogenes the Cynic

 
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  Neither a borrower nor a lender....
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].-- William Shakespeare

 
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  He [Somoza] may be a son....
He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 
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  Costly thy habit [dress] as thy....
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  'So you think *I'm* the murderer?....
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'-- Peter Stone

 
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  [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom....
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.-- Mark Twain

 
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  The men who had hated [the....
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. --

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  God is not on the side....
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.-- George W. Bush

 
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  [The body is] a marvelous machine...a....
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!-- Theodor Herzl

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  The best [man] is like water.--....
The best [man] is like water.--

 
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  [It's] time for the human race....
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.-- Dan Quayle

 
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  The biggest thing [Frida] brought into....
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.-- Salma Hayek

 
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  [Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political....
[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.-- Pat Robertson

 
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  [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective....
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.-- Mark Twain

 
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  I know [patriotism] exists, and I....
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.-- George Washington

 
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  It is [the] belief in absolutes,....
It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [Poetry] is the lava of the....
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.-- Lord Byron

 
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  [George Bush] has raised taxes on....
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.-- Bill Clinton

 
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  [Abstract art is] a product of....
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.-- Al Capp

 
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  You make 'em, I amuse 'em.....
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  During [these] periods of relaxation after....
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.-- Fritjof Capra

 
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  The best [man] is like water.--....
The best [man] is like water.--

 
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  Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate....
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.-- Henri Poincare

 
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  The right to vote is a....
The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  If the belief [in Christianity] did....
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  [Television is] the triumph of machine....
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.-- Fred Allen

 
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  [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which....
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.-- Marge Piercy

 
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  I decided that it was not....
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.-- Socrates

 
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  At any rate, I am convinced....
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.-- Albert Einstein

 
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  [M]aybe the most any of us....
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.-- Michelle Burford

 
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  He [Somoza] may be a son....
He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 
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  If men want to oppose war,....
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  It will be hard to discover....
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.-- Plato

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  The men who had hated [the....
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. --

 
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  [What is the definition of guts?]....
[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.-- Ernest Hemingway

 
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  [It's] time for the human race....
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.-- Dan Quayle

 
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  'So you think *I'm* the murderer?....
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'-- Peter Stone

 
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  While you are not able to....
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?-- Confucius

 
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  Faith: not *wanting* to know what....
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  The really potent part of love....
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.-- Martha Beck

 
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  [Television is] the triumph of machine....
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.-- Fred Allen

 
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  So they [the Government] go on....
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard.....
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective....
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.-- Mark Twain

 
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  [Sleep is] the golden chain that....
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.-- Thomas Dekker

 
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  He [Somoza] may be a son....
He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 
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  Costly thy habit [dress] as thy....
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  I have made this [letter] longer,....
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.-- Blaise Pascal

 
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  [George Bush] has raised taxes on....
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.-- Bill Clinton

 
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  It will be hard to discover....
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.-- Plato

 
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  ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard.....
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  [He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious....
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.-- Mark Twain

 
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  [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective....
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.-- Mark Twain

 
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  [The television is] an invention that....
[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.-- David Frost

 
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  [M]aybe the most any of us....
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.-- Michelle Burford

 
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  God is not on the side....
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.-- George W. Bush

 
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  [George Bush] has raised taxes on....
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.-- Bill Clinton

 
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  The best [man] is like water.--....
The best [man] is like water.--

 
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  ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern....
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Would that the Roman people had....
Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].-- Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

 
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  I don't do this for my....
I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain. I *LOVE* the pain!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  [On recognizing China] But if you....
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  [He] looks at foreign affairs through....
[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  Politics [is] the art of achieving....
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.-- Barry Goldwater

 
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  For me [video blogging] is like....
For me [video blogging] is like a scrapbook. You have all these video tapes sitting around and have no way to watch them. It's like an archive. It's so much easier than going through the video tapes.-- Mike B. Slone

 
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  [He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious....
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.-- Mark Twain

 
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  The religious challenge of this age....
The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. [43:3] Today's "Thought to Ponder" from The Urantia Book: The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beaut y, and divine goo

 
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  Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate....
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.-- Henri Poincare

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  'So you think *I'm* the murderer?....
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'-- Peter Stone

 
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  He who comes first, eats first.....
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]-- Eike von Repkow

 
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  [End of diatribe. We now return....
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  The religious challenge of this age....
The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. [43:3] Today's "Thought to Ponder" from The Urantia Book: The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beaut y, and divine goo

 
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  I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's....
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.-- New York City detective

 
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  CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would....
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  There are two things in particular....
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  [Memory is] a man's real possession...In....
[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.-- Alexander Smith

 
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  They are so damn 'intellectual' and....
They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.-- Frida Kahlo

 
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  My own suspicion is that the....
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.-- J. B. S. Haldane

 
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  [He] looks at foreign affairs through....
[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  At any rate, I am convinced....
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.-- Albert Einstein

 
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  [S]he refused to be bored chiefly....
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.-- Zelda Fitzgerald

 
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  The really potent part of love....
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.-- Martha Beck

 
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  An artist does not fake reality--he....
An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  I have made this [letter] longer,....
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.-- Blaise Pascal

 
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  [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That....
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.-- Terry Pratchett

 
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  All [zoos] actually offer to the....
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.-- H. L. Mencken

 
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  This is the most unprofessional production....
This is the most unprofessional production I've ever worked on! Nobody knows where they're going, or what they're doing, except, of course, for *ME*-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  He who comes first, eats first.....
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]-- Eike von Repkow

 
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  [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom....
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.-- Mark Twain

 
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  Separate together in a bunch. [And....
Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.-- H. L. Mencken

 
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  I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's....
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.-- New York City detective

 
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  ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard.....
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Separate together in a bunch. [And....
Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  There but for the grace of....
There but for the grace of God go [I].-- John Bradford

 
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That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.-- Neil Armstrong

 
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  [Poetry] is the lava of the....
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.-- Lord Byron

 
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  I know [patriotism] exists, and I....
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.-- George Washington

 
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  This is the most unprofessional production....
This is the most unprofessional production I've ever worked on! Nobody knows where they're going, or what they're doing, except, of course, for *ME*-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  It is [the] belief in absolutes,....
It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  [Abstract art is] a product of....
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.-- Al Capp

 
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  There are two things in particular....
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  [End of diatribe. We now return....
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  The men who had hated [the....
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. --

 
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  [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which....
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.-- Marge Piercy

 
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  Fasting and natural diet, though essentially....
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.-- Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

 
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  [S]he refused to be bored chiefly....
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.-- Zelda Fitzgerald

 
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  [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom....
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.-- Mark Twain

 
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  The men who had hated [the....
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. --

 
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  An artist does not fake reality--he....
An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  It is [the] belief in absolutes,....
It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.-- Christina Rossetti

 
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  The best [man] is like water.--....
The best [man] is like water.--

 
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If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.-- Ayn Rand

 
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That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.-- Neil Armstrong

 
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  [On recognizing China] But if you....
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  [T]here's no bad day that can't....
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.-- Chuck Sigars

 
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You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [S]he refused to be bored chiefly....
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.-- Zelda Fitzgerald

 
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  There are two things in particular....
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  I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's....
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  The really potent part of love....
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.-- Martha Beck

 
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  [Memory is] a man's real possession...In....
[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.-- Alexander Smith

 
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  To be able to practice five....
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.-- Confucius

 
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [When asked what was the proper....
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.-- Diogenes the Cynic

 
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  [On recognizing China] But if you....
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  [End of diatribe. We now return....
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [Common sense] is the best sense....
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.-- Lord Chesterfield

 
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  The religious challenge of this age....
The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. [43:3] Today's "Thought to Ponder" from The Urantia Book: The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beaut y, and divine goo

 
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  [The superior man] acts before he....
[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.-- Confucius

 
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  He who comes first, eats first.....
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]-- Eike von Repkow

 
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  [George Bush] has raised taxes on....
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.-- Bill Clinton

 
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  INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and....
INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obsc ure writer at the

 
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He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]-- Eike von Repkow

 
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  All [zoos] actually offer to the....
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.-- H. L. Mencken

 
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  Be you in what line of....
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.-- William Cobbett

 
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  [T]here's no bad day that can't....
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.-- Chuck Sigars

 
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  He [Somoza] may be a son....
He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 
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  [Common sense] is the best sense....
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.-- Lord Chesterfield

 
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  If men want to oppose war,....
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  It will be hard to discover....
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.-- Plato

 
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  At any rate, I am convinced....
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.-- Albert Einstein

 
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  Politics [is] the art of achieving....
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.-- Barry Goldwater

 
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  [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That....
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.-- Terry Pratchett

 
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  [Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining....
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.-- Voltaire

 
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  [M]aybe the most any of us....
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.-- Michelle Burford

 
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  The ultimate good desired is better....
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

 
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  Neither a borrower nor a lender....
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].-- William Shakespeare

 
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  [M]aybe the most any of us....
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.-- Michelle Burford

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [It's] time for the human race....
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.-- Dan Quayle

 
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  [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which....
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.-- Marge Piercy

 
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  [George Bush] has raised taxes on....
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.-- Bill Clinton

 
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  Faith: not *wanting* to know what....
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would....
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard.....
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  I decided that it was not....
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.-- Socrates

 
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  [S]he refused to be bored chiefly....
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.-- Zelda Fitzgerald

 
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  [Spring is] when life's alive in....
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.-- Christina Rossetti

 
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[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.-- Ernest Hemingway

 
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  They are so damn 'intellectual' and....
They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.-- Frida Kahlo

 
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  [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That....
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.-- Terry Pratchett

 
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  An artist does not fake reality--he....
An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  [End of diatribe. We now return....
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate....
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.-- Henri Poincare

 
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  ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard.....
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective....
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.-- Mark Twain

 
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  That's one small step for [a]....
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.-- Neil Armstrong

 
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  The right to vote is a....
The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  [He] looks at foreign affairs through....
[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  [T]here's no bad day that can't....
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.-- Chuck Sigars

 
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  ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern....
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  At any rate, I am convinced....
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.-- Albert Einstein

 
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  You will always find [hatred] strongest....
You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 
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  [Water is] the only drink for....
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  The men who had hated [the....
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. --

 
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  The biggest thing [Frida] brought into....
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.-- Salma Hayek

 
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  [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which....
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.-- Marge Piercy

 
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  [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which....
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.-- Marge Piercy

 
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  During [these] periods of relaxation after....
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.-- Fritjof Capra

 
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  [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom....
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.-- Mark Twain

 
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  I know [patriotism] exists, and I....
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.-- George Washington

 
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  My own suspicion is that the....
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.-- J. B. S. Haldane

 
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  'So you think *I'm* the murderer?....
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'-- Peter Stone

 
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  [The television is] an invention that....
[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.-- David Frost

 
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  Neither a borrower nor a lender....
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].-- William Shakespeare

 
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  Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in....
Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in der sich eine Kultur ueber ihre Vergangenheit Rechenschaft gibt. [transl.:] History is the mental-- Johan Huizinga

 
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  This is the true joy in....
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.-- George Bernard Shaw

 
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  While you are not able to....
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?-- Confucius

 
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  During [these] periods of relaxation after....
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.-- Fritjof Capra

 
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  [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That....
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.-- Terry Pratchett

 
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  [Water is] the only drink for....
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  I believe that [everyone] is the....
I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.-- Oprah Winfrey

 
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  [Spring is] a true reconstructionist.-- Henry....
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.-- Henry Timrod

 
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  [On recognizing China] But if you....
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  [He] looks at foreign affairs through....
[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  I decided that it was not....
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.-- Socrates

 
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  There are two things in particular....
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.-- Douglas Adams

 
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  Separate together in a bunch. [And....
Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  The ultimate good desired is better....
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

 
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  [The superior man] acts before he....
[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.-- Confucius

 
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  The religious challenge of this age....
The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. [43:3] Today's "Thought to Ponder" from The Urantia Book: The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beaut y, and divine goo

 
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  This is the most unprofessional production....
This is the most unprofessional production I've ever worked on! Nobody knows where they're going, or what they're doing, except, of course, for *ME*-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  The ultimate good desired is better....
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

 
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  While you are not able to....
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?-- Confucius

 
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  Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate....
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.-- Henri Poincare

 
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  [When asked what was the proper....
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.-- Diogenes the Cynic

 
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  He [Somoza] may be a son....
He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

 
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  [What is the definition of guts?]....
[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.-- Ernest Hemingway

 
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  Faith: not *wanting* to know what....
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  Separate together in a bunch. [And....
Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  [Common sense] is the best sense....
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.-- Lord Chesterfield

 
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You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and....
INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obsc ure writer at the

 
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  Another possible source of guidance for....
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.-- Dave Barry

 
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  [Poetry] is the lava of the....
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.-- Lord Byron

 
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  The right to vote is a....
The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate....
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.-- Henri Poincare

 
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  [Sleep is] the golden chain that....
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.-- Thomas Dekker

 
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  [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That....
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.-- Terry Pratchett

 
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  God is not on the side....
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.-- George W. Bush

 
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You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.-- Ernest Hemingway

 
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.-- Socrates

 
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[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.-- Dan Quayle

 
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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.-- Blaise Pascal

 
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  For me [video blogging] is like....
For me [video blogging] is like a scrapbook. You have all these video tapes sitting around and have no way to watch them. It's like an archive. It's so much easier than going through the video tapes.-- Mike B. Slone

 
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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.-- Alexander Smith

 
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There but for the grace of God go [I].-- John Bradford

 
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[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.-- Mark Twain

 
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?-- Confucius

 
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.-- Martha Beck

 
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This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.-- George Bernard Shaw

 
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Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  Vietnam is a jungle. You had....
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.-- Dan Quayle

 
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