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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Jay Leno
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.
Walter Truett Anderson
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Never lose self respect, no one likes a whore.
Alecia
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...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt
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So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves.
Niccollo Machavelli
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One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.
Bill Cosby
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For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.
Thomas Mann
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L'etat c'est moi (I am the State)
King Louis XIV of France
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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.
Orlando Bloom
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Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
Muriel Strode
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Diplomacy: lying in state.
Oliver Hereford
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And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs
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At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
John Kerry
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Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.
Jim Morrison
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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Thomas Huxley
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Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
Ayn Rand
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurber
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I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
George Lucas
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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
Kristin Hunter
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Natalie Goldberg
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If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Oprah Winfrey
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
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To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
E. Kim Nebeuts
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When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
Hubert Humphrey
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Soren Kierkegaard
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