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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bertrand Russell Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Confucius A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Winston Churchill Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare But mercy is above the sceptred sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein God does not play dice with the universe.
    Original: Gott würfelt nicht.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Voltaire I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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