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  • Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
  • Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
  • I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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  • Aristophanes A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
    ― Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Evan Esar A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
    ― Evan Esar
    American humorist (1899 - 1995)
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  • Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
    ― Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
    ― Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Aeschylus And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
    ― Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Plato Even the gods love jokes.
    ― Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    ― Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    ― P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
    ― Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Henry Ford Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
    ― Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Martin Luther King Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
    ― Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    ― André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
    ― Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    ― Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Jim Rohn A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
    ― Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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