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  • Edward Everett Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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  • Jean Giraudoux Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Socrates Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Will Cuppy Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • Al Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Jean Cocteau Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • William Shakespeare Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • St. John Chrysostom Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • William Somerset Maugham Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard M. DeVos Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Marcel Proust For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • George Eliot Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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