Man must go back to nature for information.
· Thomas Paine
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We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
· Toni Cade Bambara
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The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
· David Garrick
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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
· Sir Winston Churchill
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Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
· Phillip K. Dick
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The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.
· Lao Tzu
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There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.
· George Orwell
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
· Aristotle
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
· Francois Voltaire
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He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
· Diogenes Laertius
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Youth demands recreation, and if it is not provided in high places, whey will seek it in low places.
· Karl G. Maeser
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Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
· Robert Byrne
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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
· Henry David Thoreau
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Men are tormented by their own opinions of things, not by the things themselves.
· Proverb
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Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.
· Guatama Buddha
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
· Mahatma Gandhi
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Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys
· Allen W. Sherzer
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
· Henry David Thoreau
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
· George Santayana
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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
· Claire Booth Luce
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
· Frank Moore Colby
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YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
· Oliver Goldsmith
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
· Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.
· Ernest Hemingway
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Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination; do not become the slave of your model.
· Vincent van Gogh
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Some people are mere 'Bible Christians' where all the Christianity remains in the Bible and none of it gets into them.
· Unknown
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Virtue is not hereditary.
· Thomas Paine
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Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
· Wystan Hugh Auden
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
· Hiram Johnson
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
· Barbara De Angelis, PhD
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
· Wendy Ward
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She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
· Henry James, Jr.
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Patriotism is the religion of Hell.
· James Branch Cabell
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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Never give up and never face the facts.
· Ruth Gordon
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
· Carl Sandburg
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
· Mahatma Gandhi
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The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
· e. e. cummings
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People change and forget to tell each other.
· Lillian Hellman
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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.
· Edna St. Vincent Millay
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
· Betty Naomi Friedan
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I drink to make other people interesting.
· George Jean Nathan
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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
· John Updike
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How beastly the bourgeois is Especially the male of the species.
· David Herbert Lawrence
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
· Don Marquis
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
· Beatrice Potter Webb
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Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
· Jean Jacques Rousseau
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An' it harm none, do as ye will. Whatever you send out, be it good or evil, comes back to you three times over.
· Wiccan Rede
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We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
· Thomas Alva Edison
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
· Lord George Gordon Byr
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The bitch-goddess, Success.
· William James
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Marriage is incumbent on all who possess the ability.
· Prophet Muhammad
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
· Francois Voltaire
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
· John Milton
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Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.
· Proverb
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
· Ren Descartes
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True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess, and some day will be recognized by quality and quantity, and not by brand.
· J. F. Wright
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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
· Lillian Hellman
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
· James Russell Lowell
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain And twins even from the birth are Misery and Man!
· Homer
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