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  • Samuel Butler All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ambrose Bierce All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Oscar Wilde All art is quite useless.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon All colors will agree in the dark.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Meister Eckhart All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Burgess All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • John Dryden All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Edgar W. Howe All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Walter Benjamin All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • William Shakespeare All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Woodrow Wilson All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Voltaire All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Kin Hubbard All the world loves a good loser.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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