Ellen Frankfort
Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
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Dave Barry
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.
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Virgil, Eclogues
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
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Karen Horney
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.
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Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
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Ludwig Erhard
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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Joseph Murphy
We go where our vision is.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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John Kerry, Statement on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
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Bertrand Russell
Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Charles Schwab
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
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Understanding Quotes
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
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Voltaire
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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James Thorpe
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
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H. L. Mencken
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Cyrus H. Curtis
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
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Confucius
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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Sophocles
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Shneur Zalman
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
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Anthony Robbins
Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
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J. Michael Straczynski
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
