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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Oscar Wilde Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Marguerite Duras Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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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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