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  • Remy de Gourmont Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Butch Trucks Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Aristotle Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Walter Benjamin Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Anatole France Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Woody Allen Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Euripides Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
    A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Vivien Kellems Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?
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  • Bobby Davro Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • A.E. Hotchner Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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  • Henry James Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Aldous Huxley Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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