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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche "Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
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    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
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  • William James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Madonna A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
    Sex book
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marilyn Monroe A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
    Endymion (1818) I, 1
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Epictetus A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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