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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
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