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  • William Shakespeare When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Napoleon When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Napoleon When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Brian Austin Green When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Carol Burnett When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • William Shakespeare When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Farquhar When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Carroll Quigley When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Luigi Pirandello When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Edith Hamilton When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William E. Vaughan When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Jean Genet When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Edmund Burke When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aaron McGruder When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Arlen Specter When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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