Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Mark Twain By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • George Santayana By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Albert Ellis By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Mandrell By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • George Orwell By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • Jerry Rubin By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
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  • Andrea Dworkin By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Gloria Steinem By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Henry Vaughan Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
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  • Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Buddha Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Angelina Grimke Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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