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  • John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carl E. Olson Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • Martin Luther Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
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  • Bryan Magee Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Thaves Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
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  • Bobby Darin Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Richard Nixon Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • George Gilder Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
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  • Bayard Rustin Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Swans sing before they die - t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Sweet is it to have done the thing one ought.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Baz Luhrmann Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p.96
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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