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[The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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[The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
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… I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are - are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.
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Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
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