Quotes 421 till 440 of 683.
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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
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Plan for the worst, expect the best.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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